Configuring tide without calling `tide configure`

[fivegrant]

I'm using Home-Manager on NixOS and since everything has to be declared ahead of time, I was wondering if that can be done with Tide. I'm assuming if I canconfigure before running fish I can avoid this error (apologize about the ugly nix store names):

[five@desktop:~/home-configuration]$ fish
/nix/store/xvin9f4plkmd5bgmclhis1jz2swj6xny-source/functions/_tide_git_prompt_set_vars.fish (line 2): switch: Expected exactly one argument, got 0

    switch $tide_git_prompt_bg_color
           ^
in function “_tide_git_prompt_set_vars”
	called on line 3 of file /nix/store/xvin9f4plkmd5bgmclhis1jz2swj6xny-source/conf.d/_tide_Ω_init.fish

from sourcing file /nix/store/xvin9f4plkmd5bgmclhis1jz2swj6xny-source/conf.d/_tide_Ω_init.fish
	called on line 15 of file ~/.config/fish/conf.d/plugin-tide.fish

from sourcing file ~/.config/fish/conf.d/plugin-tide.fish
	called on line 305 of file /nix/store/aq7sz6wvcwc5wpbwyy8rxwi8c7clkalb-fish-3.0.2/share/fish/config.fish

from sourcing file /nix/store/aq7sz6wvcwc5wpbwyy8rxwi8c7clkalb-fish-3.0.2/share/fish/config.fish
	called during startup

string replace: Expected argument
math: Expected at least 1 args, got only 0
string replace: Expected argument

I'm new to fish so I might need to change something in the fish config file as well.

[IlanCosman]

Hmm, I'm afraid I might not be much help to you, this is a very out of the norm use case that I'm not familiar with. Thanks for asking though 😄

Do universal variables still work with your setup? I.e if you run set -U foo hello, will it stick around for the next shell you open? If universal variables work, Tide should as well.

[fivegrant]

I can set universal variables. Could I just set all the options I want for tide using them?

[IlanCosman]

Tide should do that automatically on install or after finishing tide configure...

[IlanCosman]

I assume you've tried finishing tide configure?

[fivegrant]

Yah, it doesn't work. Any tide command I run will return an error with additional errors on startup. By design, NixOS doesn't install anything outside of /nix/store which is really tripping things up right now. Usually, I can make this kind of thing work, but I'm going using nix-built Home-Manager which acts as the package manager for fish. The file locations only seem to fail tide configure though and not tide on startup

[IlanCosman]

Hmm, so what happens to ~/.config/fish? Do you have one? Where do your functions, conf.d snippets etc. go?

[fivegrant]

Sorry, I explained poorly. ~/.config/fish exists. I can still install to my home directory. I mean everything that's usually in /usr/bin or somewhere similar goes into /nix/store/ with a sha256 appended to the beginning of the name

[fivegrant]

home-manager, made links for some of the files in fish. The config options are there but the installation of the actual program is in nix-store.

~/home-configuration:ls /nix/store//xvin9f4plkmd5bgmclhis1jz2swj6xny-source/
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md  completions/  conf.d/  CONTRIBUTING.md  functions/  LICENSE.md  README.md  tide_theme/  tools/

[IlanCosman]

If ~/.config/fish is persistent then there's no reason for Tide to be having issues 😕 Maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling? Generic advice i know sorry.

Also could you run echo $__fish_config_dir for me and echo $_tide_dir? Thanks.

[IlanCosman]

Maybe Tide is freaking out not knowing where the tide_theme directory is. Can you run echo $_tide_dir for me, and also check if there is a symlink at ~/.config/fish/tide_theme? Also echo $__fish_config_dir please.

[fivegrant]

~/home-configuration:ls ~/.config/fish/
conf.d/  config.fish@  fish_variables  functions/
~/home-configuration:cd conf.d
cd: The directory “conf.d” does not exist
~/home-configuration:ls ~/.config/fish/conf.d/
plugin-tide.fish@
~/home-configuration:echo $__fish_config_dir
/home/five/.config/fish
~/home-configuration:echo $_tide_dir

~/home-configuration:ls ~/.config/fish/
conf.d/  config.fish@  fish_variables  functions/
~/home-configuration:ls ~/.config/fish/conf.d/
plugin-tide.fish@
~/home-configuration:ls ~/.config/fish/functions/
fish_greeting.fish@  fish_prompt.fish@
~/home-configuration:echo $_tide_git_dir 
/home/five/home-configuration
~/home-configuration:

[IlanCosman]

Did you install Tide through the tide_install function?

[IlanCosman]

curl -sL git.io/tide | source && tide_install is currently the only supported install method. Tide has a bit of a strange file structure because I didn't want to dump all of the files in tide_theme into the usual functions directory. It seems like you didn't install it this way, and that's probably why you're experiencing issues.

[fivegrant]

Yah, I didn't install it that way, and I can't use the tide_install because it works against the structure of the os I'm using. My PM relies on ingesting something that's usually handled by fisher or oh-my-fish