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We recognize that you might not always want to configure your setup purely in
Nix, sometimes doing things in Lua is simply the "superior" option. In such a
case you might want to configure your Neovim instance using Lua, and nothing but
Lua. It is also possible to mix Lua and Nix configurations through the following
method.
Lua. It is also possible to mix Lua and Nix configurations.

## Custom Configuration Directory {#sec-custom-config-dir}
Pure Lua or hybrid Lua/Nix configurations can be achieved in two different ways.
_Purely_, by modifying Neovim's runtime directory or _impurely_ by placing Lua
configuration in a directory found in `$HOME`. For your convenience, this
section will document both methods as they can be used.

## Pure Runtime Directory {#sec-pure-nvf-runtime}

As of 0.6, nvf allows you to modify Neovim's runtime path to suit your needs.
One of the ways the new runtime option is to add a configuration **located
relative to your `flake.nix`**, which must be version controlled in pure flakes
manner.

```nix
{
# Let us assume we are in the repository root, i.e., the same directory as the
# flake.nix. For the sake of the argument, we will assume that the Neovim lua
# configuration is in a nvim/ directory relative to flake.nix.
vim = {
additionalRuntimeDirectories = [
# This will be added to Neovim's runtime paths. Conceptually, this behaves
# very similarly to ~/.config/nvim but you may not place a top-level
# init.lua to be able to require it directly.
./nvim
];
};
}
```

This will add the `nvim` directory, or rather, the _store path_ that will be
realised after your flake gets copied to the Nix store, to Neovim's runtime
directory. You may now create a `lua/myconfig` directory within this nvim
directory, and call it with [](#opt-vim.luaConfigRC).

```nix
{pkgs, ...}: {
vim = {
additionalRuntimeDirectories = [
# You can list more than one file here.
./nvim-custom-1
# To make sure list items are ordered, use lib.mkBefore or lib.mkAfter
# Simply placing list items in a given order will **not** ensure that
# this list will be deterministic.
./nvim-custom-2
];
startPlugins = [pkgs.vimPlugins.gitsigns];
# Neovim supports in-line syntax highlighting for multi-line strings.
# Simply place the filetype in a /* comment */ before the line.
luaConfigRC.myconfig = /* lua */ ''
-- Call the Lua module from ./nvim/lua/myconfig
require("myconfig")
-- Any additional Lua configuration that you might want *after* your own
-- configuration. For example, a plugin setup call.
require('gitsigns').setup({})
'';
};
}
```

## Impure Absolute Directory {#sec-impure-absolute-dir}

[Neovim 0.9]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/22128

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