From 9f7df7ca071de7e859e712bdb866f56271e949a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah S-C <noah@sourcegraph.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 13:56:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] nix: set formatter & use nil instead of rnix-lsp (#51409)

Allows formatting everything with `nix fmt`

[nil](https://github.com/oxalica/nil) appears more maintained and higher
quality than rnix-lsp

## Test plan

N/A, nix stuff
---
 flake.nix | 2 ++
 shell.nix | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index ea2499096a9..bfed3876727 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
         }
       );
 
+      formatter = genAttrs defaultSystems (system: nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}.nixpkgs-fmt);
+
       # Pin a specific version of universal-ctags to the same version as in cmd/symbols/ctags-install-alpine.sh.
       overlays.ctags = (import ./dev/nix/ctags.nix { inherit nixpkgs utils; inherit (nixpkgs) lib; }).overlay;
 
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
index 17619f80de2..6121f3a3677 100644
--- a/shell.nix
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ pkgs.mkShell {
 
   # The packages in the `buildInputs` list will be added to the PATH in our shell
   nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
-    rnix-lsp
+    # nix language server
+    nil
 
     # Our core DB.
     postgresql_13