# PSA: if you are on unstable, try out nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars
**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [November 18, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321 "2022-11-18T02:13:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@figsoda](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/figsoda)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/1 "2022-11-18T02:13:52Z")
Note: This is for people on {nixos,nixpkgs}-unstable only
If you were using `vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (_: tree-sitter.allGrammars)`, you can now switch to `vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars` to use the versions of tree sitter grammars specified in nvim-treesitter’s lock file.
If you were experiencing breakages with `withPlugins` and switched to `:TSInstall`, you can give the new version a try.
Refer to the [new docs](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#managing-plugins-with-vim-packages) (scroll down to the treesitter section) for more information
People using `nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (ps: [...])` should automatically get the updates without changing anything
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### Author:  [@mlyxshi](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/mlyxshi)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/2 "2022-12-15T03:09:56Z")
I would like to know the reason why [vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter: remove parser directory](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/2500c9270b8644f2456d0821f39b25d42a8e7f22)
I prefer to use `neovim-unwrapped` and configure neovim with minimal configuration. This doesn’t work after the commit
```auto
xdg.configFile = {
"nvim/init.lua".text = ''
-- Add Treesitter Path
vim.opt.runtimepath = vim.opt.runtimepath + "${pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars}"
-- Invoke Real Start
require("start")
'';
};
```
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### Author:  [@figsoda](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/figsoda)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/3 "2022-12-15T03:13:19Z")
That was probably broken by [vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter: add plugins to dependencies to avoid extending vimPlugins by figsoda · Pull Request #201548 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/201548) then, all the grammars are added to dependencies instead
A way to fix this would be to also add all of `pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars.dependencies` to runtimepath
Edit: If you are worried that runtimepath would be too long, you can do a `symlinkJoin` of these
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### Author:  [@mlyxshi](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/mlyxshi)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/4 "2022-12-15T04:22:37Z")
Thanks a lot. This works
```auto
let
treesitter-parsers = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
name = "treesitter-parsers";
paths =[
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.c] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.lua] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.nix] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.bash] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.json] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.typescript] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.cpp] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.rust] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.python] )).dependencies
(pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.markdown] )).dependencies
];
};
in
{
xdg.configFile = {
"nvim/init.lua".text = ''
-- Add Treesitter Plugin Path
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("${pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter}")
-- Add Treesitter Parsers Path
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("${treesitter-parsers}")
-- Invoke Real Start
require("start")
'';
};
home.packages = with pkgs;
[
neovim-unwrapped
fd
ripgrep
]
}
```
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### Author:  [@figsoda](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/figsoda)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/5 "2022-12-15T04:35:41Z")
btw, you should be able to simplify that to
```nix
[...]
paths = (pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [p.c p.lua p.nix p.bash ...])).dependencies
[...]
```
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### Author:  [@wheelsandmetal](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/wheelsandmetal)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/6 "2023-03-31T16:40:16Z")
I’m on unstable and using home-manger to configure my neovim install.
```nix
{ config, pkgs, ...}:
let
nvim-plugintree = (pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [
p.c
p.lua
p.nix
p.bash
p.cpp
p.json
p.python
p.markdown
]));
treesitter-parsers = pkgs.symlinkJoin {
name = "treesitter-parsers";
paths = nvim-plugintree.dependencies;
};
in
{
programs.neovim = {
enable = true;
vimAlias = true;
plugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; [
nvim-plugintree
];
extraConfig = ''
lua require('init')
'';
};
xdg.configFile = {
"nvim/lua/init.lua".text = ''
-- Add Treesitter Plugin Path
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("${nvim-plugintree}")
-- Add Treesitter Parsers Path
vim.opt.runtimepath:append("${treesitter-parsers}")
require('start')
'';
"nvim/lua/start.lua".source = ./start.lua;
};
home.packages = with pkgs; [
tree-sitter
];
}
```
I think this is all the relevent parts of my config. I use nix flakes to build the system.
Opening neovim and it still errors with `read-only file system`. Weirdly though the highlighting is working.
This didn’t work for me properly before your change so it may be unrelated, any insights would be welcome though!
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### Author:  [@figsoda](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/figsoda)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/7 "2023-03-31T17:01:42Z")
Do you have anywhere in your config that runs `TSUpdate` or `TSInstall`?
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### Author:  [@wheelsandmetal](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/wheelsandmetal)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/8 "2023-03-31T17:05:00Z")
No, not in the config files. And running it manually in neovim ofc has the same error
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### Author:  [@superpim](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/superpim)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/9 "2023-09-27T16:44:12Z")
This might be late, but I had the same issue, and it was fixed when I flipped this:
```auto
require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup({
....
-- Automatically install missing parsers when entering buffer
auto_install = false, <-- This was set to true before
....
})
```
This issue is cause by nvim either wanting to install something additionally as mentioned by @figsoda.
This is a late contribution, but I hope I point someone in the right direction. The pointers above helped me a lot.
If not this, look for other places where you automagically install things. That should especially be applicable when migrating an existing config to nix (as suddenly you move to read-only)
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### Author:  [@lokeshmohanty](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/lokeshmohanty)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2023, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/psa-if-you-are-on-unstable-try-out-nvim-treesitter-withallgrammars/23321/10 "2023-11-16T05:57:34Z")
Hi, I am new to nixos and this works but I have a doubt.
How do I find such packages? I tried the following
- nix search nixpkgs nvim-treesitter
- nix-env -qaP nvim-treesitter
- Queried on the nix packages search online
None of them showed this package. I want a similar package for emacs but don’t know how to find.