I'm also in this boat. I have atuin as part of my zsh config that is distributed to all new machines, whether they run NixOS or some other operating system with

I'm also in this boat. I have atuin as part of my zsh config that is distributed to all new machines, whether they run NixOS or some other operating system with Nix on them (e.g. MacOS). After switching to NixOS I found an interest in maintaining a custom setup again, since it wouldn't fall apart every time I moved machine. { pkgs, ... }: { users.defaultUserShell = pkgs.zsh; environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ atuin # ^R eza # ls git zsh ]; programs.direnv.enable = true; programs.nix-direnv.enable = true; programs.zsh = { enable = true; enableCompletion = true; enableBashCompletion = true; enableGlobalCompInit = true; # https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/docs/highlighters.md syntaxHighlighting.enable = true; syntaxHighlighting.highlighters = [ "main" "brackets" ]; # See `man zshoptions` for more details. setOptions = [ # Remove duplicates continuously from command history (preserve newest entry). "HIST_IGNORE_DUPS" # Instantly share command history between all active shells. "SHARE_HISTORY" # Alternative to: "APPEND_HISTORY", "INC_APPEND_HISTORY", # Disable ^S and ^Z for less accidental freezing. "FLOW_CONTROL" # Save timestamp and duration of each command in command history. "EXTENDED_HISTORY" ]; shellAliases = { # Navigation rm = "rm -iv"; ls = "eza -lg"; tree = "eza -lgT"; # git aliases # ... }; promptInit = '' autoload -U promptinit promptinit prompt off # Simple: # PS1='[%n@%m:%~] %(!.#.$) ' # Colorful: # PS1='[%F{green}%n@%m%f:%F{blue}%~%f] %(!.#.$) ' # Colorful with git branch: function git_branch_name() { branch=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD --short 2>/dev/null) if [ ! -z "$branch" ]; then echo -n " [%F{red}$branch%f]" fi } # Omit username, print hostname + '$' with red when root, otherwise green: prompt='[%(!.%F{red}.%F{green})%m%f:%F{blue}%~%f]$(git_branch_name) %(!.%F{red}#%f.$) ' # See: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html#Prompting setopt prompt_cr setopt prompt_sp setopt prompt_subst export PROMPT_EOL_MARK="" ''; interactiveShellInit = '' # Prevent user-level "config missing" message. touch $HOME/.zshrc # MacOS bindkey '^[[7~' beginning-of-line bindkey '^[[8~' end-of-line # Linux bindkey '^[[1;3D' beginning-of-line # alt+left bindkey '^[[1;3C' end-of-line # alt+right bindkey '^[[1;5D' backward-word # ctrl+left bindkey '^[[1;5C' forward-word # ctrl+right # Both bindkey '^R' history-incremental-search-backward bindkey '^U' kill-whole-line bindkey '^Y' yank # My SSH endpoints don't recognize modern terminals export TERM=xterm-256color # ^R only eval "$(atuin init zsh --disable-up-arrow)" ''; }; }