bug: unexpected '@'

[MAHDTech]

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Issue description

Hi,

How can I escape the '@' symbol in the home directory? I've tried single quote and backslash already, is there another character to use?

I'm using home-manager in an environment where the home directories are like this

/home/<username>@<domain>

The error I receive is this

error: syntax error, unexpected '@', expecting end of file

       at «string»:1:14:

            1| /home/<username>@<domain>

The only location I see to have it configured with the '@' is the homeDirectory field.

    configHomeManager = {
      system,
      username,
      ...
    }:
      home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
        pkgs = pkgsImportSystem system;

        extraSpecialArgs = {
          inherit inputs;
          inherit system;
        };

        modules = [
          ./home/<username>
          {
            home = {
              homeDirectory = "/home/<username>@<domain>";
              stateVersion = "23.11";
            };
          }
        ];
      };

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System information

nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
this path will be fetched (0.00 MiB download, 0.00 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/88hr9j7a1r9qrvv7xnfyjmd1ww459krl-nix-info
copying path '/nix/store/88hr9j7a1r9qrvv7xnfyjmd1ww459krl-nix-info' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.5.0-27-generic, Ubuntu, 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), nobuild`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
 - channels(mduncan): `"nixos-23.05-23.05, nixpkgs"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs

[IldenH]

Try adding lib.literalExpression?
homeDirectory = lib.literalExpression "/home/<username>@<domain>"
It might be preferable to do:
homeDirectory = ''/home/<username>@<domain>''
but I don't know if that works.