Creating an overlay for neovim

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Hello! I’m new to Nixos and one of the thorniest sticking points has been configuring neovim back to the way I’m used to. I tried out nixvim and nvf, but ultimately decided that the home manager’s baseline way of handling plugins fit best. Now all of my config looks like this:

programs.neovim.plugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
  {
    plugin = nvim-autopairs;
    type = "lua";
    config = /* lua */ "require('nvim-autopairs').setup({})";
  }
];

The above code works, but it’s redundant to keep adding type = "lua"; when all of my config is in lua. I looked to see if there was a way to change the default type for neovim plugins (which is defined in a submodule within the neovim package) and stumbled on the concept of overlays. Ever since, I’ve been stuck. It seems like such a small change should be simple, but at this point I’ve tried seemingly every combination of overrides, overlays, and submodules to no success.

Is there something I’m missing here?

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Using builtins.map on a list of attrsets would be the simplest option IMO. You could even create a new option.

Overlays are unrelated, those are for modifying attributes in a nixpkgs instance, not modifying module options.