examples-for-distributions.md

Config Examples for Distributions

NixOS

coc-sumneko-lua (or lua-language-server) use sumneko-lua.serverDir to store generated metafiles and log. However, lua-language-server installed by nix is read-only in NixOS. Therefore just setting sumneko-lua.serverDir is not enough in NixOS, some cmd args are also needed to be set.

Here's an minimal working example:

coc-settings.json:

{
  "Lua.misc.parameters": [
    "--metapath",
    "~/.cache/sumneko_lua/meta",
    "--logpath",
    "~/.cache/sumneko_lua/log"
  ],
  "sumneko-lua.serverDir": "${pkgs.lua-language-server}/share/lua-language-server"
}

${pkgs.lua-language-server} needs to be replaced by real path of lua-language-server. And lua-language-server used to be called sumneko-lua-language-server in nixpkgs, maybe you need to use old name.

If you don't want to generate your coc configuration by nix and don't want to change the absolute path of lua-language-server every time updating your nixpkgs, you can link lua-language-server to somewhere fixed and change last line of configuration to the link target.

For example, add it to environment.systemPackages and change

• configuration.nix

  { pkgs, ... }: {
    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.lua-language-server ];
  }
  

• coc-settings.json

  {
    "Lua.misc.parameters": [
      "--metapath",
      "~/.cache/sumneko_lua/meta",
      "--logpath",
      "~/.cache/sumneko_lua/log"
    ],
    "sumneko-lua.serverDir": "/run/current-system/sw/share/lua-language-server"
  }

Others

Default config should work.