TIL: How to Get Shell Completions in Nix Shell With Direnv
When shell completions don’t work with direnv, you may need to use nix develop to load the shell manually.
Background I am using nix-direnv, with nix devshell to autoload into my development environments. I changed the directory and the devshell is automagically loaded without me doing anything, which is great. Provides me with a bunch of tools specific for that project. With all the benefits of Nix, mainly reproducibility.
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TIL: How to Set up Layouts in Zellij That Use Direnv and Nix
I have been using Zellij for a while now. I tried to set up layouts for one of my personal projects. So that we could have tests and linting running and any other tasks we may want whilst doing development 1.
However, I had an issue working out how to call commands that required direnv and nix to set up development environments. In my case, my nix dev shell installed the go-task tool to run tasks such as task lint or task tests. However the shell that zellij was running the commands in for the layout did not load my Nix dev shell, so the go-task binary was not available.
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