/dotfiles

System configuration

Primary LanguageVim script

dotfiles

This repo contains my personal system configuration. I keep it synced with every machine I work on and It's the first thing I do when working on a new one (or at least that's the goal).

The setup is tailored for a macOS system (tested on 10.11 and 10.12). The goal is to also have it work on other Unix systems.

Installation

Clone this repo to a convenient location (the examples use ~/dotfiles):

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/stefan1niculae/dotfiles.git  # HTTPS
git clone git@github.com:stefan1niculae/dotfiles.git # or SSH version (if you configured it already)
# or just download the zip from github.com/stefan1niculae/dotfiles

Run the bootstrapping script in the root:

cd ~/dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh

The script will do the following:

  • Symlink dotfiles — editing ~/.aliases will also reflect in this repo
  • Install Command Line Tools for Xcode — required by Homebrew and other applications (TODO: check if you need to install Xcode from the AppStore)

Screenshots

Terminal

TODO: ss with terminal in use

Vim

TODO: ss with vim in use

Contents

Configs for:

  • zsh — better shell

  • vim — power-user text editor

  • git — source control

  • TODO: other programs

GUI applications:

  • iTerm

  • TODO: other apps

The setup reflects my usual toolchain:

  • Back-end: Python

  • Front-end: Node, CoffeeScript, Sass, React?

  • Design: Photoshop, Experience Design?

  • Productivity: Pages, Numbers, Keynote,

  • Editing: Texpad, Typora, Atom

  • Game Dev: Unity, Visual Studio Code

  • TODO: other areas

TODO

As you can tell, the project is WIP — the scripts and readme are riddled with TODOs.

Bootstrapping

  • Git:
    • generate public ssh key (if it doesn't exist) and instruct to enter it https://github.com/settings/keys [New SSH key]
    • set global gitignore: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
  • US+RO.keylayout to ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts (for macOS) and instruct to activate
  • Vim
    • install plugins
    • install MacVim
    • make the vim and vi commands use MacVim's binary
    • install linters (ask before installing?): python, coffee, c#, css, html, md, json, sql, TODO: more linter languages
  • install fonts
  • change shell to zsh
  • copy only custom theme for zsh (do not overwrite the whole .oh-my-zsh folder)
  • iTerm2 preferences and themes
  • update git through brew (Apple git makes reset-terminal super slow, rendering the read-line unusable)
  • programming languages (ask before installing?):
    • Haskell: cabal, stack, ghc-mod and add them to $PATH
    • JavaScript: node, npm, coffee
  • Scripts listed in right-click menu:
    • create new file (something like this?)
    • toggle hidden files (something like this?)
  • BTT configs
  • Karabiner-Elements
  • Atom packages:
    • file-icons
    • highlight-selected
  • Quick Look Plugins (brew cask install <plugin-name>):
    • Code qlcolorcode
    • Markdown qlmarkdown
    • JSON quicklook-json
    • Archives betterzipql
    • Text files without extension qlstephen
    • Image Size? qlimagesize
    • Videos qlvideo
    • pip: pip install ipython virtualenvwrapper
    • notebooks: https://github.com/tuxu/nbviewer-app

Inform about

  • Useful applications (for macOS):

    • BetterTouchTool — trackpad gestures and keyboard shortcuts
    • BetterSnapTool — window snapping
    • Bartender — status bar icons hider
    • The Unarchiver — archive extractor
    • Lightshot — screenshots
    • TODO: other apps

  • Keyboard shortcuts (via BTT):

    • ⇧⌥ key app launching shortcuts
    • global trackpad gestures
    • browser trackpad gestures

  • Keyboard keys:

    • ⌥ key diacritics, ⇧⌥ key uppercase diacritics
    • ⌥ key useful symbols

  • Keyboard configuration:

    • for external keyboard (mechanical / Apple)
    • Caps is Esc; ⇧Caps is regular Caps
    • ⏏ is Expose; F13 is Launchpad
    • TODO: keyrepeat - delay & rate

  • Text replacements (synced from iCloud account):

    • ;key emoji shortcuts
    • @@ and @key for email addresses
    • ## for phone number

  • Vim:

    • key-bindings
    • plugins
    • cheat-sheet (TODO: separate repo)

  • Fonts:

    • Hack for monospaced
    • Open Sans for sans-serif
    • Palatino for serif
    • TODO: more/other font choices?

  • Aliases:

    • navigaton — l, ll
    • git — gcl, gs, gacp <message>, etc
    • general — thf, et, etc
    • coming from zsh — ..., etc

Updater

Task to check for updates every month. Something like this?

function f() { find . -iname "*$1*" ${@:2} }
function r() { grep "$1" ${@:2} -R . }

# Even better: use the silver searcher (brew install the_silver_searcher)
alias f="ag -g"
alias r=ag

Zsh

Interesting plugins to try (from the github wiki):

  • brew
  • cabal?
  • chucknorris
  • coffee?
  • common-aliases
  • dirhistory/dircycle
  • fasd
  • git
  • gitfast?
  • git-extras
  • npm
  • osx
  • pep8?
  • pip
  • pylint?
  • python?
  • tmux
  • tmuxinator?
  • vi-mode
  • virtualenvwrapper
  • wd
  • github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins
  • prezto
  • antigen-hs/zgen
  • alf
  • fresh?
  • !something to auto-activate env when cd-ing into project folder