Why is there no code navigation for nix?

[inclyc]

Thanks for suggestion. Implemented a new feature inspired from your words

Nixd: nix language server

Recently I wrote a brand new nix language server, which links with official NixOS/nix library. Home page: https://github.com/nix-community/nixd/ About Nixd is a Nix language server that directly uses (i.e., is linked with) the official Nix library (https://github.com/NixOS/nix). Some notable features provided by linking with the Nix library include: Nixpkgs option support, for all option system (NixOS/home-manager/flake-parts). Diagnostics and evaluation that produce identical results as th…

@DavHau

When I think about the times when I started with nix, I remember that I had absolutely no clue how packages were built and how modules worked and how to modify stuff, simply because I didn’t know where to find the relevant pieces.

Give it a Ctrl + click!

@DavHau

and how modules worked

You can use goto-declaration for modules (this is a home-manager module)