diff --git a/lib/types.nix b/lib/types.nix
index 1646dcb..2af9dbc 100644
--- a/lib/types.nix
+++ b/lib/types.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 { lib, nix2lua }:
 
 let
+  extCommas = with lib.types;
+    coercedTo
+      (either (listOf str) commas)
+      (x: lib.concatStringsSep "," (lib.toList x))
+      commas;
+
   modeEnum = lib.types.enum [ "" "n" "!" "i" "c" "v" "x" "s" "o" "t" "l" ];
   mode = with lib.types; either modeEnum (uniq (listOf modeEnum));
 
+
   # TODO: maybe add more options and add descriptions from
   # :help vim.keymap.set
   # :help nvim_set_keymap
@@ -144,5 +151,6 @@ let
   });
 in
 {
+  inherit extCommas;
   inherit mode keymap;
 }
diff --git a/modules/plugins/style/neoformat.nix b/modules/plugins/style/neoformat.nix
index 6caecea..ddda82e 100644
--- a/modules/plugins/style/neoformat.nix
+++ b/modules/plugins/style/neoformat.nix
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ let cfg = config.plugins.style.neoformat; in
 
     autoformat = {
       enable = mkEnableOption "Autoformat on save file";
-      pattern = {
-        type = commas;
+      pattern = mkOption {
+        type = types.extCommas;
         default = "*";
       };
     };
diff --git a/modules/profiles/recommended.nix b/modules/profiles/recommended.nix
index f5a1887..39f1791 100644
--- a/modules/profiles/recommended.nix
+++ b/modules/profiles/recommended.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 with lib.nix2lua;
 let
-  inherit (lib.mod) Space cmd ctrl leader localLeader;
+  inherit (lib.mod) Space cmd leader localLeader;
   gs = config.plugin.gitsigns-nvim.varName;
   hop = config.plugin.hop-nvim.varName;
 in
diff --git a/modules/vim/options.nix b/modules/vim/options.nix
index 5f0df73..8d43087 100644
--- a/modules/vim/options.nix
+++ b/modules/vim/options.nix
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ let
     };
 
     path = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = ''
         on Unix: ".,/usr/include,,"
         other systems: ".,,"
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ let
     };
 
     tags = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "./tags;" "tags" ];
       description = ''
         Filenames for the tag command, separated by spaces or commas.  To
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ let
     };
 
     mousescroll = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "ver:3" "hor:6" ];
       description = ''
         This option controls the number of lines / columns to scroll by when
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ let
     };
 
     mouseshape = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "i:beam" "r:beam" "s:updown" "sd:cross" "m:no" "ml:up-arrow" "v:rightup-arrow" ];
       description = ''
         This option tells Vim what the mouse pointer should look like in
@@ -1809,7 +1809,7 @@ let
     };
 
     shada = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = ''
         Win32:  !,'100,<50,s10,h,rA:,rB:
         others: !,'100,<50,s10,h)
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ let
     };
 
     spellsuggest = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "best" ];
       description = ''
         Methods used for spelling suggestions.  Both for the |z=| command and
@@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ let
     };
 
     suffixes = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ".bak" "~" ".o" ".h" ".info" ".swp" ".obj" ];
       description = ''
         Files with these suffixes get a lower priority when multiple files
@@ -2603,7 +2603,7 @@ let
     };
 
     wildignore = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ];
       description = ''
         A list of file patterns.  A file that matches with one of these
@@ -2880,7 +2880,7 @@ let
     };
 
     breakindentopt = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ];
       description = ''
         Settings for 'breakindent
@@ -2888,7 +2888,7 @@ let
     };
 
     colorcolumn = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ];
       description = ''
         'colorcolumn' is a comma-separated list of screen columns that are
@@ -3382,7 +3382,7 @@ let
     };
 
     winhighlight = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ];
       description = ''
         Window-local highlights.  Comma-delimited list of highlight
@@ -3537,7 +3537,7 @@ let
     };
 
     cinwords = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "if" "else" "while" "do" "for" "switch" ];
       description = ''
         These keywords start an extra indent in the next line when
@@ -3547,7 +3547,7 @@ let
     };
 
     cinscopedecls = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "public" "protected" "private" ];
       description = ''
         Keywords that are interpreted as a C++ scope declaration by |cino-g|.
@@ -3557,7 +3557,7 @@ let
     };
 
     comments = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = ''
         [
           "s1/*"
@@ -3589,7 +3589,7 @@ let
     };
 
     complete = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "." "w" "b" "u" "t" ];
       description = ''
         This option specifies how keyword completion |ins-completion| works
@@ -3856,7 +3856,7 @@ let
     };
 
     matchpairs = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ "(:)" "{:}" "[:]" ];
       description = ''
         Characters that form pairs.  The |%| command jumps from one to the other.
@@ -4068,7 +4068,7 @@ let
     };
 
     suffixesadd = {
-      type = commas;
+      type = extCommas;
       vimDefault = [ ];
       description = ''
         list of suffixes, which are used when searching for a