From 3348feb61390d34db056857ad97226abd0384720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Alexander <tom@fizz.buzz>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:34:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a command to launch a repl of the current flake.

---
 nix/configuration/flake.nix | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 nix/configuration/repl.nix  |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 nix/configuration/repl.nix

diff --git a/nix/configuration/flake.nix b/nix/configuration/flake.nix
index af0ac6d9..3b857a9e 100644
--- a/nix/configuration/flake.nix
+++ b/nix/configuration/flake.nix
@@ -90,6 +90,30 @@
                 ];
               };
             }
+            (
+              {
+                config,
+                lib,
+                pkgs,
+                ...
+              }:
+              let
+                repl_path = toString ./.;
+                nix-self-repl = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nix-self-repl" ''
+                  source /etc/set-environment
+                  nix repl "${repl_path}/repl.nix" "$@"
+                '';
+                # If we wanted the current version of a flake then we'd just launch
+                #   nix repl
+                # and then run:
+                #   :lf /path/to/flake
+              in
+              {
+                config = {
+                  environment.systemPackages = lib.mkIf config.nix.enable [ nix-self-repl ];
+                };
+              }
+            )
           ];
         }
       ) nodes;
diff --git a/nix/configuration/repl.nix b/nix/configuration/repl.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e21db83b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nix/configuration/repl.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+let
+  flake = builtins.getFlake (toString ./.);
+  nixpkgs = import <nixpkgs> { };
+in
+{ inherit flake; } // flake // builtins // nixpkgs // nixpkgs.lib // flake.nixosConfigurations