nix-inspect

Interactive nix config viewer

nix run github:bluskript/nix-inspect

preview.mp4

Features

• 🪡 Path navigator to quickly type in or paste a path which live updates as you type
• 🔍Fuzzy search in the current directory
• 🔖 Bookmarks to save important nix paths, automatically populated with your current system and user
• ⌨️ Vim keybindings
• (planned) 🕑 Recently visited paths tab

Installation

As of now the project remains unpackaged in nixpkgs, so the recommended installation method is through flakes:

{
  inputs = {
    nix-inspect.url = "github:bluskript/nix-inspect";
  };
}

and then reference it in your environment.systemPackages:

{inputs, ...}: {
  environment.systemPackages = [
    inputs.nix-inspect.packages.default
  ];
}

Key Bindings

Key	Behavior
q	Exit
h / left arrow	Navigate up a level
j / down arrow	Select lower item
k / up arrow	Select upper item
l / right arrow	Enter selected item
f / "/"	Search
ctrl+d	Half-Page Down
ctrl+u	Half-Page Up
s	Save bookmark
.	Path Navigator mode

Known Issues / TODO

• Legacy non-flake config support
• Loading arbitrary nix exprs defined by the user