/Dotfiles_old

My .Dotfiles, Tmux, nvim, zshrc and other fun things!

Primary LanguageVim scriptMIT LicenseMIT

Dotfiles

---- hacker1db Modified dot files!

I have an edits branch for things I am working on and considering adding to my workflow!

These dot files are from @nicknisi

Copy and paste the following to Install my modified dotfiles I use solarzied Theme personally its easier on the eyes if you dont like it you can switch it or type light in terminal to change it to a light version of solarized but it will switch it back in when you run tmux I am working on trying to fix it but it will take time!

And most of all enjoy and share your thoughts! what works for me wont always work for you but smile and enjoy anyway!

git clone https://github.com/hacker1db/Dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

cd ~/.dotfiles

./install.sh

install.sh will start by initializing the submodules used by this repository. Then, it will install all symbolic links into your home directory. Every file with a .symlink extension will be symlinked to the home directory with a . in front of it. As an example, vimrc.symlink will be symlinked in the home directory as ~/.vimrc. Then, this script will create a ~/.vim-tmp directory in your home directory, as this is where vim is configured to place its temporary files. Additionally, all files in the $DOTFILES/config directory will be symlinked to the ~/.config/ directory for applications that follow the XDG base directory specification, such as neovim.

Next, the isntall script will perform a check to see if it is running on an OSX machine. If so, it will install Homebrew if it is not currently installed and will install the homebrew packages listed in brew.sh. Then, it will run osx.sh and change some OSX configurations. This file is pretty well documented and so it is advised that you read through and comment out any changes you do not want. Next, the script will call install/nvm.sh to install Node.js (stable) using nvm.

ZSH Setup

ZSH is configured in the zshrc.symlink file, which will be symlinked to the home directory. The following occurs in this file:

  • set the EDITOR to nvim
  • Load any ~/.terminfo setup
  • Set the CODE_DIR variable, pointing to the location where the code projects exist for exclusive autocompletion with the c command
  • Recursively search the $DOTFILES/zsh directory for files ending in .zsh and source them
  • source a ~/.localrc if it exists so that additional configurations can be made that won't be kept track of in this dotfiles repo. This is good for things like API keys, etc.
  • Add the ~/bin and $DOTFILES/bin directories to the path

Vim and Neovim Setup

Neovim is a fork and drop-in replacement for vim. in most cases, you would not notice a difference between the two, other than Neovim allows plugins to run asynchronously so that they do not freeze the editor, which is the main reason I have switched over to it. Vim and Neovim both use Vimscript and most plugins will work in both (all of the plugins I use do work in both Vim and Neovim). For this reason, they share the same configuration files in this setup. Neovim uses the XDG base directory specification which means it won't look for a .vimrc in your home directory. Instead, its configuration looks like the following:

Vim Neovim
Main Configuratin File ~/.vimrc ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
Configuration directory ~/.vim ~/.config/nvim

Installation

Vim is likely already installed on your system. If using a Mac, MacVim will be installed from Homebrew. Neovim will also be installed from Homebrew by default on a Mac. For other systems, you may need to install Neovim manually. See their web site for more information.

link.sh will symlink the XDG configuration directory into your home directory and will then create symlinks for .vimrc and .vim over to the Neovim configuration so that Vim and Neovim will both be configured in the same way from the same files. The benefit of this configuration is that you only have to maintain a single vim configuration for both, so that if Neovim (which is still alpha software) has issues, you can very seamlessly transition back to vim with no big impact to your productivity.

Inside of .zshrc, the EDITOR shell variable is set to nvim, defaulting to Neovim for editor tasks, such as git commit messages. Additionally, I have aliased vim to nvim in aliases.zsh You can remove this if you would rather not alias the vim command to nvim.

vim and neovim should just work once the correct plugins are installed. To install the plugins, you will need to open Neovim in the following way:

         Run the following in a terminal to install neovim and vim plugins 
    nvim +PlugInstall