TIL: How to Fix tmux-resurrect on NixOS
When I moved to NixOS I noticed that tmux-resurrect stop restoring
some applications such as man and nvim. Like it used to on my Arch machine. I recently found a solution to my
problem (thanks to a lovely chap on the nixos discourse).
By adding the following lines to our tmux config:
resurrect_dir="$HOME/.tmux/resurrect"
set -g @resurrect-dir $resurrect_dir
set -g @resurrect-hook-post-save-all 'target=$(readlink -f $resurrect_dir/last); sed "s| --cmd .*-vim-pack-dir||g; s|/etc/profiles/per-user/$USER/bin/||g; s|/home/$USER/.nix-profile/bin/||g" $target | sponge $target'
What this does is it edits the tmux-resurrect file from this:
# bat ~/.tmux/resurrect/last --plain
pane dotfiles 0 1 :* 0 nvim ~/dotfiles :/home/haseeb/dotfiles 1 nvim :/home/haseeb/.nix-profile/bin/nvim --cmd lua vim.g.loaded_node_provider=0;vim.g.loaded_perl_provider=0;vim.g.loaded_python_provider=0;vim.g.python3_host_prog='/nix/store/4n4d0f1xd14gl4pfymdcqb9pmagcyyfj-neovim-0.9.1/bin/nvim-python3';vim.g.ruby_host_prog='/nix/store/4n4d0f1xd14gl4pfymdcqb9pmagcyyfj-neovim-0.9.1/bin/nvim-ruby'
to this:
# bat ~/.tmux/resurrect/last --plain
pane dotfiles 0 1 :* 0 nvim ~/dotfiles :/home/haseeb/dotfiles 1 nvim :nvim
NOTE: we are just left with :nvim as the binary to run (from tmux-resurrect perspective).
Then to restore my neovim session we could use a plugin which creates a Session.vim file in the local directory
of that project, that tmux-resurrect can use to restore the actual neovim session rather than just running neovim.
However I don’t want to manage session files like that. So I use auto-session
which checks if a session exists in a specific directory and if it does it automatically restores the last saved session
when neovim opens.