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I've wanted to use nix for a very long time, but every time I devote a few hours to using it, some intractable issue always stops me. Years ago it was a lack of

I've wanted to use nix for a very long time, but every time I devote a few hours to using it, some intractable issue always stops me. Years ago it was a lack of any support for shells other than bash and zsh. I've been using fish for over a decade. I'm sure that's been fixed, but the issue for attempting to use it again is that something else will come up. I'm not expecting it to work perfectly, but I'd prefer the bugs be small, not showstoppers. I love the idea, having everything as config layers, but still think the process needs more iteration. Frankly, I like guix more, in theory anyways, but haven't given it a chance. Maybe it's choice paralysis, and I need to just rip that bandaid off one of these days

rgoulter 3y ago
> Years ago it was a lack of any support for shells other than bash and zsh. I've been using fish for over a decade. It used to be that running `nix-shell --package` would drop you into bash. With the newer nix command equivalent, `nix shell` retains the same SHELL. When writing Nix packages, practically the only supported shell is bash. But, that's less of an issue, since it doesn't affect what interactive shell you use.
- happens 3y ago
  Really? `nix develop` still drops me into a bash shell, even though I pretty much always want to use zsh. Is there an option I have to enable somewhere?
  - rgoulter 3y ago
    `nix develop` is for entering an environment to build the packages, and packages are built with bash. For "I use fish shell, and I want to load the shell.nix", it's more convenient to use direnv (which uses `nix print-dev-env`). https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/nix https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/nix Another option is to use `nix develop --command fish`.
assbuttbuttass 3y ago
FWIW I use fish with NixOS with no issue. The new "nix shell" command uses the default shell, and you can use "nix develop -c fish" to get a dev shell

rgoulter 3y ago

> Years ago it was a lack of any support for shells other than bash and zsh. I've been using fish for over a decade. It used to be that running `nix-shell --package` would drop you into bash. With the newer nix command equivalent, `nix shell` retains the same SHELL. When writing Nix packages, practically the only supported shell is bash. But, that's less of an issue, since it doesn't affect what interactive shell you use.

happens 3y ago
Really? `nix develop` still drops me into a bash shell, even though I pretty much always want to use zsh. Is there an option I have to enable somewhere?
- rgoulter 3y ago
  `nix develop` is for entering an environment to build the packages, and packages are built with bash. For "I use fish shell, and I want to load the shell.nix", it's more convenient to use direnv (which uses `nix print-dev-env`). https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/nix https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/nix Another option is to use `nix develop --command fish`.

assbuttbuttass 3y ago

FWIW I use fish with NixOS with no issue. The new "nix shell" command uses the default shell, and you can use "nix develop -c fish" to get a dev shell