neovim-flake/docs/manual/configuring/custom-plugins/legacy-method.md

# Legacy Method {#sec-legacy-method}

Prior to version v0.5, the method of adding new plugins was adding the plugin
package to `vim.startPlugins` and add its configuration as a DAG under one of
`vim.configRC` or `vim.luaConfigRC`. Users who have not yet updated to 0.5, or
prefer a more hands-on approach may use the old method where the load order of
the plugins is determined by DAGs.

## Adding plugins {#sec-adding-plugins}

To add a plugin not available in nvf as a module to your configuration, you may
add it to [](#opt-vim.startPlugins) in order to make it available to Neovim at
runtime.

```nix
{pkgs, ...}: {
  # Add a Neovim plugin from Nixpkgs to the runtime.
  vim.startPlugins = [pkgs.vimPlugins.aerial-nvim];
}
```

And to configure the added plugin, you can use the `luaConfigRC` option to
provide configuration as a DAG using the **nvf** extended library.

```nix
{inputs, ...}: let
  # This assumes you have an input called 'nvf' in your flake inputs
  # and 'inputs' in your specialArgs. In the case you have passed 'nvf'
  # to specialArgs, the 'inputs' prefix may be omitted.
  inherit (inputs.nvf.lib.nvim.dag) entryAnywhere;
in {
  vim.luaConfigRC.aerial-nvim= entryAnywhere ''
    require('aerial').setup {
      -- your configuration here
    }
  '';
}
```