With patches, I can change anything I want
I've been a Drupal and Linux user for a long time, as well as using command-line tools and utilities like Neovim and tmux.
Since September 2022, I've used NixOS as my daily operating system on my computers.
Based on similar programs, in particular by ThePrimeagen, I wrote and use a program to automatically open tmux sessions and run initial commands for any project in my Code directory.
In October, he released tmux-sessionizer as its own package.
There is a tmux-sessionizer already in nixpkgs, but I wrote my own derivation to use Prime's.
There was also this problem in the code:
# If someone wants to make this extensible, i'll accept
# PR
selected=$(find ~/ ~/personal ~/personal/dev/env/.config -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | fzf)
These directories don't match what I use on my computers.
People have submitted pull requests, but these haven't yet been merged.
Either I change my directory structure or I can't use it.
But, in my derivation, I can apply my own patch files to make any changes I want - such as changing the directories to ones I'd want to use - making it usable for me.
I can also apply other people's patches, the same as I'm doing with dwm.
Someone has created a pull request to make the directories dynamic based on a configuration file.
I can apply these changes as a patch to my configuration and remove my custom one.
I can make any other changes I want or need to.
The possibilities are endless.
- Oliver
