Cannot get neovim home-manager plugins installed -- how to debug?

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Hi,

I’m having trouble getting neovim plugins to install in home manager. Ive reduced to a very simply configuration (via home-manager programs) to try to debug:

neovim = {
  enable = true;
  viAlias = true;
  vimAlias = true;
  extraConfig = ":set number";

  plugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
    dracula-nvim
    ...
  ];
}

I can confirm that with this causes neovim to be installed, that it creates the aliases, and that it creates a basic config with :set number. However, the plugins don’t seem to be present when I run nvim, and the contents of ~/.config/nvim only contain the extraConfig and nothing else (and if I remove the extraConfig then there is no ~/.config/nvim at all). It appears that the plugins are being ignored entirely.

I’ve been trying to read the neovim nix source and haven’t spotted the issue. I’ve compared with other nix profiles I’ve found online, and they look similar. I also confirmed that which nvim points to /home/m/.nix-profile/bin/nvim.

Any ideas how I can debug this further? Where should the plugins be getting installed to if things are working?

Thanks!

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I’m having this same issue with my plugins but at least I was able to get the theme working. I’m not sure why dracula-nvim isn’t working with just providing the vimPlugin but try

plugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
  {
    plugin = dracula-nvim;
    config = "colorscheme dracula";
  }
];