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Nix

Nix

Baptist BENOIST

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Nix language support for Visual Studio Code.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Nix language support for Visual Studio Code

Features

Syntax coloring

Syntax coloring

Installation

Visual Studio Code

Hit F1 and enter the ext install nix command.

Installing the extension Locally

Just clone the GitHub repository under your local extensions folder:

  • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
  • Mac / Linux: $HOME/.vscode/extensions

Issues / Feature requests

You can submit your issues and feature requests on the GitHub issues page.

Contributing

As long as you respect the following rules, I accept any pull-request which can improve the support of the language on Visual Studio Code :

  • Indent your code by 2 spaces.
  • Document the purpose of functions and classes.
  • Document other code where useful.
  • When adding a new feature, please mention it in the README.md Features section. Use screenshots when applicable.

More information

  • vscode-nix on the Visual Studio Marketplace
  • vscode-nix GitHub repository
  • Visual Studio Code website
  • Nix website
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