dotfiles

My configuration files. Everything should work with WSL and macOS unless otherwise noted. This repo requires sudo privileges for the most streamlined installation, but instructions are included to get neovim working on any linux machine.

Dependencies

Install the following using your package manager. For example:

sudo apt install stow tmux

And clone tpm:

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

Homebrew

Install homebrew and run the "Next Steps" commands:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Reload the terminal. Then, install the following packages with homebrew:

brew install oh-my-posh neofetch eza fish fisher neovim fzf zoxide keychain

fish

To set fish as the default shell and make it aware of homebrew, run the following commands:

For Linux:

echo /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

fish

fish_add_path /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin

chsh -s /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish

For macOS:

echo "/opt/homebrew/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

fish

fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/bin

chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

If fish isn't the default shell after a terminal reload, ensure it is after a full restart. If nothing else works, as a last resort, add fish to the end of .profile.

Clone and Link

After a terminal reload, clone this repo into the home directory (I recommend cloning via SSH):

git clone git@github.com:dukeofjukes/dotfiles.git

From ~/dotfiles/, run:

stow .

Reload the terminal to ensure all changes have been made.

`~/.extra`

If you have any extra commands and configurations that need to be loaded without forking/pushing to this repo, put them in ~/.extra. This file will be untracked and can be used to add anything private. My /.config/fish/config.fish script will invoke this using bash every time fish starts up. Here's what mine looks like:

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Brandon Burtchell"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="62345978+dukeofjukes@users.noreply.github.com"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

git config --global --replace-all core.editor nvim

git config --global --replace-all core.excludesFile '~/.gitignore-global'

On Windows

Be sure to copy-paste /.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml from this repo (from WSL file system) to %appdata%\alacritty\ in your Windows file system.

Neovim without `sudo` privaleges

First, ensure dotfiles are cloned:

git clone git@github.com:dukeofjukes/dotfiles.git

To install and configure neovim without sudo, run the following commands from ~:

mkdir neovim && cd neovim

wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage

chmod u+x nvim.appimage

./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract

Then add the following line to your shell configuration (e.g., .bashrc):

export PATH="~/neovim/squashfs-root/usr/bin:$PATH"

Then run the following command to manually create a symbolic link to the neovim config from my dotfiles:

ln -s ~/dotfiles/.config/nvim/ ~/.config/nvim

My neovim config depends on npm to install LSPs, which often isn't installed on servers. Run the following commands to locally install npm (credit to David Golfarb):

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

. ~/.bashrc

mkdir ~/local ~/node-latest-install && cd ~/node-latest-install

wget -c http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1

./configure --prefix=~/local

make install

wget -c https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Acknowledgements

Mathias Bynens and their dotfiles repository, which inspired my oh-my-posh theme and use of a private .extra file.

burtchell/dotfiles