From 0b5a0cbc69f18f2a123bf4ae0751ee718ef04e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:59:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/profiles/base: install vim w/nix-syntax plugin

Considering that you most likely edit Nix code in the installer, that
seems like a useful thing.

The size of the ISO I got from

    nix-build nixos/release.nix -A iso_minimal.x86_64-linux

is still at 877M.
---
 nixos/modules/profiles/base.nix | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/profiles/base.nix b/nixos/modules/profiles/base.nix
index c415ca857437..eebc0df1040c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/profiles/base.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/profiles/base.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@
     pkgs.mkpasswd # for generating password files
 
     # Some text editors.
-    pkgs.vim
+    (pkgs.vim.customize {
+      name = "vim";
+      vimrcConfig.packages.default = {
+        start = [ pkgs.vimPlugins.vim-nix ];
+      };
+      vimrcConfig.customRC = "syntax on";
+    })
 
     # Some networking tools.
     pkgs.fuse