pedantix

pedantix is the pedantic Nix formatter.

It was bothering me that in my NixOS configuration, I was never consistent in ordering my module arguments, some being { lib, config, pkgs, ... } and some others being { config, lib, pkgs, ... }, you get the idea. Also I had grown tired of statix' repeated_keys error. Lastly, due to the nature of the nix language, I do not think there is much value in custom ordering of attributes except for in let bindings (I guess you could make a case for rec as well).

pedantix does this for you while staying compliant with your formatter of choice (tested with nixfmt(-rs), alejandra, and nixpkgs-fmt). I guess you can consider it a cherry on top :)

Here are some of its features (everything is optional):

• ordering of function arguments
• ordering of attributes
• ordering of inherits
• ordering of let bindings
• ordering of lists (use with caution!)
• merging of repeated keys (this does not fix broken evaluations)
• flattening of attribute sets with a single entry
• (un-)quoting of (valid) identifiers
• enforcing of blank lines in between attribute sets
• overrides for arbitrary attribute/file paths

Try it now

^{(this will not modify your file, but only show you how it would look when formatted with pedantix)}

nix run github:Swarsel/pedantix < your-file.nix

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