NUR VS emacs-overlay

Compare NUR vs emacs-overlay and see what are their differences.

NUR

Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Mic92] (by nix-community)

emacs-overlay

Bleeding edge emacs overlay [maintainer=@adisbladis] (by nix-community)
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NUR emacs-overlay
24 34
1,143 459
5.1% 2.4%
9.1 10.0
7 days ago 7 days ago
Python Nix
MIT License -
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NUR

Posts with mentions or reviews of NUR. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.

emacs-overlay

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-overlay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.
  • Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: using Nix flakes the non-flake way
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    The project uses this overlay: https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay

    What that means is if something is broken in Emacs, the community will fix it, and all I need to do is run `nix flake update` to grab the latest commit and then `nix run .#build-switch` to alter my system. Easy.

    Thanks for the heads-up on the 404s! I've fixed those links.

    In re: to org-agenda, I don't use that as much anymore. But I heavily, heavily using org-roam w/ org-roam-dailies everyday to build my own networked graph of notes. For tasks, nowadays I just use simple docs for projects and Asana to keep a catalog of everything.

  • NixOS&(Home-Manager) Flake/Overlays Help
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 31 Jul 2023
    Im a newish NixOS user, Ive used it like 20 times before but always quit because I couldnt debug errors, trying not to give up for the 20th time this time lmao; so Ive been trying to learn how to use overlays & flakes for a couple of days now. The ones I want to use/enable are: - Emacs-Overlay - Spicetify-Nix
  • My First Impressions of Nix
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jun 2023
  • Which package manager should I use?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 12 Apr 2023
    Nix offers the same advantage through the use of emacs-overlay. Besides, Nixpkgs contains more Linux packages than any other distros. Depending on the user's needs, Nix is another option.
  • It looks like the kellyk Emacs PPA is no longer maintained. Are there any alternatives?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Feb 2023
    You can use this overlay to get the latest https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay
  • Will any emacs package manager let me audit packages before installing them?
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 15 Feb 2023
    Depending on your goals, emacs-overlay is also worth a look.
  • dired navigation without infinite buffers
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Feb 2023
    { pkgs ? import {} }: ((import (builtins.fetchTarball { url = "https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/archive/master.tar.gz"; })) pkgs pkgs).emacsGit
  • Installing Emacs 29 on Pop! OS
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Jan 2023
    One option is to install Nix and use emacs-overlay.
  • How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter?
    12 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Dec 2022
    You can install Nix on your mac and use https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay/, which supports all the existing tree-sitter-based major modes OOB.
  • Emacs 29 is nigh What can we expect?
    31 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Nov 2022
    Its great to see both eglot and tree-sitter being merged. However, I am unhappy about the state of 'emacs configurations/distributions' right now. I have been using Doom Emacs, but the development is pretty much stalled there [0], and I don't think there is any distribution that is keeping up with these cutting-edge features (compared to the NeoVim ecosystem, let's say). Somehow it feels like I was seeing a lot more activity about Emacs configurations two-three years ago.

    > Compile EmacsLisp files ahead of time

    Ooh, this is interesting. Hoping to see a derivation in https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay soon.

    [0] I am not complaining though as Doom was the main author's personal config from the get-go. I am just pointing out a void.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NUR and emacs-overlay you can also consider the following projects:

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

nixos-search - Search NixOS packages and options

flake-utils - Pure Nix flake utility functions [maintainer=@zimbatm]

nix-darwin - nix modules for darwin

use-package - A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

nixos-generators - Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.

chemacs2 - Emacs version switcher, improved

nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager