To use the overlay
Add the overlay to your home.nix (home-manager) or configuration.nix (nixos):
{
nixpkgs.overlays = [
(import (builtins.fetchTarball {
url = https://github.com/nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz;
}))
];
}
If you are using flakes to configure your system, add to your nixpkgs overlays attribute (examples will differ, the following is for home-manager):
{
inputs.neovim-nightly-overlay.url = "github:nix-community/neovim-nightly-overlay";
outputs = { self, ... }@inputs:
let
overlays = [
inputs.neovim-nightly-overlay.overlay
];
in
homeConfigurations = {
macbook-pro = inputs.home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
configuration = { pkgs, ... }:
{
nixpkgs.overlays = overlays;
};
};
};
}
Note, I recently switched the overlay to use flakes by default with flakes-compat for older nix. Please report issues if this breaks things.
Install neovim-nightly:
nix-env -iA pkgs.neovim-nightly
or add to home-manager/configuration.nix.
Binary cache
You will want to use the nix-community binary cache. Where the overlay's build artefacts are pushed. See here for installation instructions.