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lilyball/nix-env.fish

Nix environment setup for the fish shell
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/lilyball/nix-env.fish
lilyball/nix-env.fish.json
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nix-env.fish

Section titled “nix-env.fish”

Sets up the Nix environment for a non-NixOS Fish shell.

Beyond just setting up $PATH and the various $NIX_* environment variables, this also sets up $fish_function_path and $fish_complete_path to include any Nix-installed Fish functions/completions, and sources any Nix-installed Fish conf.d.

Install

Section titled “Install”

Any Fish package manager should be able to install this.

Fisher

Section titled “Fisher”
fisher install lilyball/nix-env.fish

Manual install

Section titled “Manual install”

You can install this manually by copying or symlinking the conf.d/nix-env.fish file into your ~/.config/fish/conf.d/ folder.