Document how to set configuration? about neovim-nightly-overlay HOT 8 CLOSED

This is a question best suited for discourse or the nix manual, pkgs.neovim-nightly is a drop-in replacement for wherever pkgs.neovim is called, there is nothing unique about using it.

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Awesome, thanks so much @mjlbach. Here's the commit that's got me running Neovim nightly! a-h/dotfiles@dd56c35

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Thanks, it doesn't seem like a drop-in replacement to me...

When I change from:

      (
	 pkgs.neovim.override {
	    vimAlias = true;
	    configure = {
	      packages.myPlugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; {
		start = [
		  vim-go
		  vim-lastplace
		  vim-nix
		  coc-prettier
		  easygrep #dkprice/vim-easygrep
		  #nvim-lspconfig #https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html#lsp-extension-example
		];
		opt = [];
	      };
	      customRC = builtins.readFile ./../dotfiles/.vimrc;
	  };
	}
      )

To:

      (
	 pkgs.neovim-nightly.override {
	    vimAlias = true;
	    configure = {
	      packages.myPlugins = with pkgs.vimPlugins; {
		start = [
		  vim-go
		  vim-lastplace
		  vim-nix
		  coc-prettier
		  easygrep #dkprice/vim-easygrep
		  #nvim-lspconfig #https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html#lsp-extension-example
		];
		opt = [];
	      };
	      customRC = builtins.readFile ./../dotfiles/.vimrc;
	  };
	}
      )

I get an error:

error: anonymous function at /nix/store/r85slpvs1z7gykc968bbsqy3dmcc1a5h-source/pkgs/applications/editors/neovim/default.nix:1:1 called with unexpected argument 'vimAlias', at /nix/store/r85slpvs1z7gykc968bbsqy3dmcc1a5h-source/lib/customisation.nix:79:63

I'll ask on the Discourse though!

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Neovim nightly is an override for neovim-unwrapped, not neovim, so you need to write the wrapper if you want to use the other helper functions.

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@a-h I encourage you to use wrapNeovim or the home-manager plugin which exposes typed options to configure neovim.

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@a-h The overlay now explicitly overrides neovim-unwrapped, so your original post should "just work"

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Pls reopen, does not work anymore, see 573/nix-config-1@a91916a, same error as OP.

EDIT: Using neovim.override in combination with this repository's overlay does indeed work.
Deleted my followup comment which posed exactly this as a question.

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Awesome, thanks so much @mjlbach. Here's the commit that's got me running Neovim nightly! a-h/dotfiles@dd56c35

you're using neovim.override not neovim-nightly.override there still ?
EDIT: See answer directly above that comment.

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