Elpy VS envrc

If you want to stick with Elpy, I'd suggest side-stepping the RealPython tutorial and diving in to Elpy's documentation directly. But keep in mind that the project has been looking for a new maintainer since March of 2021.

Elpy allows to do that with its folding module.

you can use elpy for that its not lsp but it might be faster than pyright.

The last commit in https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy master was 16 days ago, so it seems yes.

And I'm using Elpy on Emacs. It works like a charm, which provides (quote from it README): - Code completion - Code Navigation - Interactive evaluation and interactive Python shell - On-the-fly syntax checking - Access to documentation

This is one of the (minor) reasons I abandoned anaconda-mode (default for Doom) for elpy. You can do the same with this snippet in your packages.el lisp (package! anaconda-mode :ignore t) (package! elpy :recipe (:host github :repo "jorgenschaefer/elpy") :pin "2203597") ;; Commit date 2021/3/28 Anaconda is lightweight by comparison. Elpy is also a python package that needs to be installed. Read their docs before using. https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy

I (current maintainer of Elpy) am not able to properly maintain the project anymore.

For python development, I use https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy (Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines and configures a number of other packages, both written in Emacs Lisp as well as Python.)

buffer-env: A pure-Elisp version of the direnv utility. Useful to make Emacs aware of Python virtualenvs (which, judging by the questions posted here, is unfortunately still a complication for a lot of people). Similar to (and inspired by) envrc, but doesn't require the direnv program.

Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.

Also take a look at the envrc package. I think it handles multiple projects better.

I further make my software projects so that when I click a link I go into an environment pre-loaded with their dependencies so dropping in/out of projects is always frictionless. I do this with the reproducibility guarantees of nix, along with glue like nix-direnv and envrc-mode to direnv.

In conjunction with installing direnv on your favorite text editor, it's a very hassle free experience. Everything happens automatically. If you use Emacs, i higly recommend envrc.el

Direnv is installed using the nix-direnv installation instructions under "Via configuration.nix in NixOS". I read some recommendations that envrc.el is a better alternative then direnv.el, and after some testing I have to agree. (envrc-global-mode) is enabled in my config. This works perfectly with a normal emacs instance.

I don't use flake.nix, only shell.nix, though check if the envrc package works any better for you. https://github.com/purcell/envrc

As an alternative to emacs-direnv, I’d recommend the “envrc” package.

btw, my main issue regarding tramp was the fact that I didn't have my environment generated by direnv, via the https://github.com/purcell/envrc package. I use direnv almost exclusively to activate my nix-shell, so I can access the exact software dependencies required by that directory of a project.

I'm not familiar with these tools too but I highly recommend to look at https://github.com/purcell/envrc. If you are not familiar with direnv I suggest to try it with nix-shell/flakes before.