pass user as arg

flake.nix

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
       nixosConfigurations = {
         desktop = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
           inherit system;
+          specialArgs = { inherit user; };
           modules = [
             ./nixos/configuration.nix
             home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager
@@ -33,16 +34,17 @@
               home-manager = {
                 useGlobalPkgs = true;
                 useUserPackages = true;
+                extraSpecialArgs = { inherit user; };
                 users.${user} = {
                   imports = [
                     ./nixos/home.nix
                     ./modules/applications/firefox.nix
+                    ./modules/applications/alacritty.nix
                     ./modules/shell/fish.nix
                     ./modules/shell/utilities.nix
                     ./modules/shell/git.nix
                     ./modules/shell/github.nix
                     ./modules/editor/neovim.nix
-                    ./modules/applications/alacritty.nix
                   ];
                 };
               };

modules/editor/neovim.nix

@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@
   xdg.configFile = { "nvim/init.lua".source = ../../nvim.configlink/init.lua; };
 
   programs.git.extraConfig.core.editor = "nvim";
+  home.sessionVariables = { EDITOR = "nvim"; };
 
 }

modules/shell/fish.nix

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@
     shellInit = "";
   };
 
+  home.sessionVariables = { fish_greeting = ""; };
+
   programs.starship = {
     enable = true;
     enableFishIntegration = true;

modules/shell/utilities.nix

@@ -19,4 +19,9 @@
     glow
   ];
 
+  home.file = {
+    ".rgignore".text = config.ignorePatterns;
+    ".fdignore".text = config.ignorePatterns;
+  };
+
 }

nixos/configuration.nix

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # your system.  Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page
 # and in the NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).
 
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+{ config, pkgs, user, ... }:
 
 {
   imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
   fonts.fontconfig.defaultFonts.monospace = [ "Victor Mono" ];
 
   # Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.
-  users.users.noah = {
+  users.users.${user} = {
 
     # Create a home directory for human user
     isNormalUser = true;

nixos/home.nix

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-{ pkgs, lib, ... }:
+{ pkgs, user, lib, ... }:
 
 let
 
-  editor = "nvim";
-  font = "Victor Mono";
   dotfiles = builtins.toString ../.;
   nixos_config = builtins.toString ./.;
   notes_path = "$HOME/dev/personal/notes";
@@ -22,11 +20,12 @@ let
 
 in {
   options = with lib; {
-    user = mkOption { default = "noah"; };
+    testuser = mkOption { default = user; };
     fullName = mkOption { default = "Noah Masur"; };
-    font = mkOption { default = font; };
+    font = mkOption { default = "Victor Mono"; };
     nixos_config = mkOption { default = nixos_config; };
     dotfiles = mkOption { default = dotfiles; };
+    ignorePatterns = mkOption { default = ignore_patterns; };
   };
 
   config = {
@@ -52,8 +51,6 @@ in {
     gtk.theme = { name = "Adwaita-dark"; };
 
     home.sessionVariables = {
-      fish_greeting = "";
-      EDITOR = "${editor}";
       NIXOS_CONFIG = "${nixos_config}";
       DOTS = "${dotfiles}";
       NOTES_PATH = "${notes_path}";
@@ -66,11 +63,6 @@ in {
       "direnvrc".text = "source $HOME/.nix-profile/share/nix-direnv/direnvrc";
       "spectrwm/spectrwm.conf".source = ./spectrwm.conf;
     };
-    home.file = {
-      ".rgignore".text = ignore_patterns;
-      ".fdignore".text = ignore_patterns;
-    };
-
     programs.direnv = {
       enable = true;
       nix-direnv.enable = true;