Posts tagged "direnv":

Nix shell, direnv and XDG_DATA_DIRS

A few weeks ago I noticed that I no longer could use haskell-hoogle-lookup-from-website in Emacs. After a bit of experimentation I found that the reason was that I couldn't use xdg-open in a Nix shell. Yesterday I finally got around to look into further.

It's caused by direnv overwriting XDG_DATA_DIRS rather than appending to it. Of course someone already reported a bug already.

The workaround is to use

use nix --keep XDG_DATA_DIRS