docs: move explanations into short module headers

Non-obvious context sits in a brief header at the top of a module, everything else uses single-line comments. niri binds use spawn-sh strings, so neon only overrides the command.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-10-02 09:25:40 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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commit 06b656477b
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# zsh with oh-my-zsh: agnoster where glyphs render, gentoo on the console.
# Deep paths are shortened to `…/last/two` so the prompt stays on one line:
# `%(4~|…/%2~|%~)` shows the last two components from four levels down.
{ lib, ... }:
{
# configure z-shell to use omz with some plugins
programs.zsh = {
enable = true;
autosuggestion.enable = true;
syntaxHighlighting.enable = true;
oh-my-zsh = {
enable = true;
# add git and agents as plugins
plugins = [
"git"
"ssh-agent"
"gpg-agent"
];
# everything here lands before `source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh`
# runs before oh-my-zsh is sourced
extraConfig = ''
# make omz faster on large repositories
# faster git status on large repositories
DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY=true
# only display a fancy theme when glyphs are rendered
if [[ "$TERM" == "linux" || "$TERM" == "screen" ]]; then
ZSH_THEME="gentoo"
else
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'';
};
# Unlike oh-my-zsh.extraConfig above, this lands *after*
# `source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh`, which is where the theme's prompt functions
# come into existence.
# runs after oh-my-zsh, once the theme's prompt exists
initContent = lib.mkAfter ''
# Keep the prompt on one line in deeply nested trees.
#
# Both themes render the working directory as `%~`, the full path with
# $HOME collapsed to `~`. Somewhere like
# ~/git/bfh/cas-pml-sem/documents/bericht that is 39 columns on its own,
# and together with user@host and a long branch name the line wraps.
#
# `%(4~|…/%2~|%~)` is a prompt ternary: at four or more components show
# an ellipsis and the last two, otherwise show the path whole. Short
# paths like ~/git/nixconfig are left alone.
if [[ "$ZSH_THEME" == "agnoster" ]]; then
# agnoster calls prompt_dir on every render, so redefining it is
# enough. AGNOSTER_DIR_* keep the segment's own colours.
# agnoster renders prompt_dir on every prompt, so override it
prompt_dir() {
prompt_segment "$AGNOSTER_DIR_BG" "$AGNOSTER_DIR_FG" '%(4~|…/%2~|%~)'
}
else
# gentoo builds PROMPT once at load time, so patch the string. Its
# `%~` is the non-root branch of `%(!.%1~.%~)`, and it is the first
# literal `%~` in there, so the root branch is untouched. ASCII `...`
# because this branch is the Linux console, whose font may lack U+2026.
# gentoo builds PROMPT once; ascii dots, the console font lacks …
PROMPT="''${PROMPT/\%~/%(4~|.../%2~|%~)}"
fi
'';
};
# set important env vars
home.sessionVariables = {
EDITOR = "vim";
NH_FLAKE = "/home/aaron/git/nixconfig";