Example vs Simple

[datacurse]

Would it be easier for me to turn my simple config into example-like (add lazy loading, ability to use on non-nix systems with packer and multiple versions with different things enabled/disabled?

[BirdeeHub]

Depends.

They both use some different plugins but mostly the same ones still, so, honestly, its up to you if you want to improve what you have, or start from a new base.

Using non-nix systems with paq basically amounts to, calling the setup function from the luaUtils template's main init.lua at the start of your config to create a dummy nixCats global when not on nix, and then checking if require('nixCatsUtils').isNixCats before calling paq, where paq contains only download and install instructions, and whether to put it in start or opt

And setting up lazy loading without lazy.nvim involves using lze or lz.n, and you can get a ton of examples of that from the example template which can guide you on doing your setup.

[datacurse]

ok thanks, ill try to do it manually then

[BirdeeHub]

A key thing to remember

lze and lz.n are NOT like lazy.nvim

You can call them as many times as you want, and you dont have to call them on everything.

So you can pick and choose what things you want to lazy load at first, and convert them into specs right where they were, and then eventually build toward loading all the lazily loaded ones together via the import spec for maximum performance later if desired.

With lazy.nvim, you either use it for everything, or you dont use it pretty much

[BirdeeHub]

Also, I added the ability to toggle wrapRc at runtime yesterday.

Instead of setting wrapRc to true or false you could set it to something like wrapRc = "UNWRAP_IT";

And then in the shell

UNWRAP_IT=true nvim .

or

export UNWRAP_IT=true
nvim .
# and then to wrap it again
unset UNWRAP_IT

and then it will load to unwrappedCfgPath if set, otherwise from vim.fn.stdpath('config')

https://nixcats.org/nixCats_format.html#nixCats.flake.outputs.settings

Its technically slightly slower because of an extra os.getenv, but its nice!

Might be helpful when editing your lua!