.dotfiles

Welcome to my personal config. If you know me personally, you know that I absolutely refuse to leave my terminal for anything other than a web browser and a few electron apps. Terminals have been the fastest input/output interface to deal with computers through the last few decades and a few generations of evolving technology.

This is the way.

This setup is custom tailored for me. Just like you wouldn't use anyone else's suit, this is not meant for you to clone, set and forget but rather: I'm sharing what I do on a day to day basis and hopefully we can learn from each other.

Tooling

Here's a brief breakdown of the tools that I use.

Heavy rotation: Day to day basis, several hours

neovim. A rewrite of Vim with Lua as a scripting language and a fast MessagePack API
tmux. Terminal multiplexer. A server modeled, text-based session -> window -> pane viewport segregation
ripgrep. Developer grep. The (currently) fastest clear text, regex based recursive search tool
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Day to day, all day, but I don't think too much about them

fish. An exotic shell, full color support and autocompletions with minimal config
starship. Rust based, context sensible prompt
delta. A Levenshtein-based diff tool with syntax highlight

Frequently used, handy to have around

fdfind. Better find, recursively search by filename
exa. Better ls, full color support, sane defaults
batcat. Better cat with syntax highlight
htop. Better top with color support and context tooling integrated
ctop. Container monitor for Docker

Rarely used, powerful functionality when needed

procs. Better ps, color support, smaller featureset
dust. Tree-like storage usage visualization
duf. Better df, list mounted storage devices
tokei. Lines of code counter, language sensitive