Of all the pieces of software I had to set up again when I switched to NixOS, Neovim took me the longest. This kind of surprised me at first: given that the Venn Diagram of NixOS users and Neovim users is fairly close to a circle ­— the set of people who are most productive when fiddling with configuration — I thought it'd be a breeze to get Neovim going on NixOS. Unfortunately, all that seems to have happened is, perhaps predictably, the evolution of a dozen different ways to go about this.