PSA: if you are on unstable, try out nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars

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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 (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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I would like to know the reason why vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter: remove parser directory

I prefer to use neovim-unwrapped and configure neovim with minimal configuration. This doesn’t work after the commit

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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That was probably broken by vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter: add plugins to dependencies to avoid extending vimPlugins by figsoda · Pull Request #201548 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub 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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Thanks a lot. This works

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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btw, you should be able to simplify that to

[...]
paths = (pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (p: [ p.c p.lua p.nix p.bash ... ])).dependencies
[...]
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I’m on unstable and using home-manger to configure my neovim install.

{ 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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Do you have anywhere in your config that runs TSUpdate or TSInstall?

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No, not in the config files. And running it manually in neovim ofc has the same error

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This might be late, but I had the same issue, and it was fixed when I flipped this:

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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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.

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