Helpers

If Nixvim is built using the standalone method, you can access our "helpers" as part of the lib module arg:

{ lib, ... }:
{
  # You can use lib.nixvim in your config
  fooOption = lib.nixvim.mkRaw "print('hello')";
}

If Nixvim is being used as as a home-manager module, a nixos module, or as a dawwin module, our "helpers" can be accessed via the config.lib option:

{ config, ... }:
let
  helpers = config.lib.nixvim;
in
{
  # Your config
}

Or you can access the extended lib used in standalone builds via the nixvimLib module arg:

{ nixvimLib, ... }:
{
  # You can use nixvimLib.nixvim in your config
  fooOption = nixvimLib.nixvim.mkRaw "print('hello')";
}

This "extended" lib, includes everything normally in lib, along with some additions from nixvim.

Note: the lib argument passed to modules is entirely unrelated to the lib option accessed as config.lib!

A certain number of helpers are defined that can be useful:

helpers.emptyTable: An empty lua table {} that will be included in the final lua configuration. This is equivalent to {__empty = {};}. This form can allow to do option.__empty = {}.
helpers.mkRaw str: Write the string str as raw lua in the final lua configuration. This is equivalent to {__raw = "lua code";}. This form can allow to do option.__raw = "lua code".
helpers.toLuaObject obj: Create a string representation of the Nix object. Useful to define your own plugins.
helpers.listToUnkeyedAttrs list: Transforms a list to an "unkeyed" attribute set.

This allows to define mixed table/list in lua:
```
  (listToUnkeyedAttrs ["a", "b"]) // {foo = "bar";}
```
Resulting in the following lua:
```
  {"a", "b", [foo] = "bar"}
```
helpers.enableExceptInTests: Evaluates to true, except in mkTestDerivationFromNixvimModule where it evaluates to false. This allows to skip instantiating plugins that can't be run in tests.
helpers.toRawKeys attrs: Convert the keys of the given attrs to raw lua.
```
  toRawKeys {foo = 1; bar = "hi";}
```
will translate in lua to:
```
  {[foo] = 1, [bar] = 2,}
```
Otherwise, the keys of a regular attrs will be interpreted as lua string:
```
  {['foo'] = 1, ['bar'] = 2,}
  -- which is the same as
  {foo = 1, bar = 2,}
```

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Helpers