Dotfiles

My dotfiles are optimized to use the mouse as little as possible and to make navigating the terminal as pleasant as possible on macOS. Relying on Nix, the philosophy is to only have "general" tools installed machine-wide and install project-specific tools using that project's flake.

Highlights:

Nix, nix-darwin and home-manager
Alacritty
~~Hasklig~~
Monaspace Ne
Tmux + Neovim integration (navigate using ctrl-hjkl between tmux/nvim panels)
Karabiner and Hammerspoon (map caps-lock to esc, move/resize windows, quick shortcuts)

Installation
Usage

Installation

make install
make darwin-switch
make post-setup

Usage

Tmux

To start a tmux session:

tl dot

tl is an alias for tmuxp load (defined in modules/zsh/aliases.nix), dot stands for dotfiles session config file located at modules/tmux/tmuxp/dot.yaml.

Use Prefix+s to switch between running sessions using fzf.

ctrl-b c to create a new tab
ctrl-b - to split vertically
ctrl-b | to split horizontally
ctrl-b x to close a panel
ctrl-b , to rename a tab
ctrl-b C to clear the screen
ctrl-k/j/k/l to navigate between panels (also works with neovim)
ctrl-b 1/2/3... to switch to a different tab

Neovim

I use neovim built in LSP for talking to the LSP Servers.

ctrl-k/j/k/l to navigate between panels
\a LSP Code Action
\w save
\ew open current directory viewer
\es open current directory viewer in vertical split
\ev open current directory viewer in horizontal split
\; open LanguageClient context menu
K LanguageClient Hover
gd LanguageClient Go to definition
LanguageClient formats on save
ctrl-p to trigger fuzzy finder

Hammerspoon

Used for window management, caffeine replacement (prevents machine going to sleep), etc.

caps-lock-a Alacritty
caps-lock-b Firefox
caps-lock-c Calendar
caps-lock-d Spotify
caps-lock-e IntelliJ IDEA
caps-lock-g Fork
caps-lock-m Messages
caps-lock-m Google Chrome
caps-lock-s Slack
caps-lock-t DataGrip
caps-lock-v Visual Studio Code
caps-lock-h Move window to the left
caps-lock-j Move window to the bottom
caps-lock-k Move window to the top
caps-lock-l Move window to the right
caps-lock-f Maximize window, repeat to cycle through sizes
caps-lock-y Move window one screen west
caps-lock-u Move window one screen south
caps-lock-i Move window one screen north
caps-lock-o Move window one screen east

Karabiner

Remap caps-lock to esc when pressed shortly and to hyper when long-pressed.

Troubleshooting:

When you get messages like:

[2023-08-07 22:07:41.565] [error] [console_user_server] grabber_client connect_failed: Connection refused

and you have checked that the relevant Input Monitoring options in the Settings are turned on, try:

/Applications/.Nix-Karabiner/.Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice-Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice-Manager deactivate
/Applications/.Nix-Karabiner/.Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice-Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice-Manager activate

this should re-request the approval of the virtual keyboard device.

Notable utils

I use Rust re-implementations of many standard utilities.

bat like cat but prettier
eza replacement for ls
fd replacement for find
procs replacement for ps
ripgrep replacement for ag
sd replacement for sed
tokei for counting lines of code
xsv csv manipulation similar to jq

Other interesting tools:

navi ctrl-r triggers parametric cheat sheet search (defined in modules/navi/cheats/common.cheat)

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