diff --git a/modules/neovim/zzz_earlyload/default.nix b/modules/neovim/zzz_earlyload/default.nix
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+# The vim modules are sorted reverse alphabetically, so any extraConfig that is
+# put in here should hopefully be the first thing to be loaded. I'm using it to
+# set stuff like my mapleader
+{
+  programs.neovim.extraConfig = builtins.readFile ./settings.vim;
+}