dotfiles

My dotfiles for primarily setting up a mac

Goals

• Fast and productive
• Modern (Use modern replacement of traditional tools)
• Aesthetic
• Multiple options Plan

Quick Reference

Go to cheatsheet and quick references

CLI tools

• shell and related
  • zsh
  • oh-my-zsh -> ramework for managing your zsh configuration.
  • shell prompt
    • Primary -> starship
    • Secondary -> powerlevel10k
• Terminal Emulators
  • Primary- Ghostty, kitty
  • Fun -> edex-ui
  • secondary iTerm2, Alacritty
  • Future -> extraterm
• Terminal multiplexur
  • Primary - Zellij
  • Secondary - tmux with tmuxinator for easily managing sessions
  • Experimental - tab
• manage ssh keys with sshstorm
• A viewer for git and diff output delta
• File Managers
  • new -> yazi
  • primary -> broot, ranger
  • experimental -> vifm, nnn
• System Info
  • neofetch - sysinfo at startup with logo and colors
  • htop -> cross-platform interactive process viewer.
  • procs -> procs is a replacement for ps written in Rust.
• git
  • lazygit -> simple terminal UI for git commands
  • tig -> text-mode interface for Git
  • houndGit plugin that helps prevent sensitive data from being committed into a repository by sniffing potential commits against PCRE regular expressions
• Fun
  • fortune -> random quotes of wisdom
  • lolcat -> colorize output of any command
  • cowsay -> draw a character quting something
  • genact -> a nonsense activity generator
• Productivity and Modern tools
  • fzf The command line fuzzy finder (quickref)
    • television -> Blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI.
  • ++exa -> A modern replacement for ls++
  • eza -> A modern replacement for ls
  • bat -> A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
  • tre -> A replacement for tree command that uses git ls-files as source of file when possible
  • fd -> simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  • ripgrep (rg) - > tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern
  • dust -> du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.
• Markdown renderer
  • glow -> Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
  • mdcat -> Fancy cat for Markdown
• Help and info
  • tealdeer -> a fast implementation of tldr
  • tldr -> collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
    • navi -> An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line and application launchers.

Editor

• zed
• Vscode/Vscodium
• helix-editor
• Emacs

Install emacs on Mac

• Multiple emacs “distros” managed by chemacs2
• Primary - emacsadventures -> My own emacs configuration
• Secondary - doom-emacs, invoked by doomacs
• Experimental - scimax (scimax), super-emacs (superemacs), elegant-emacs (elegantemacs)

• Vim
  • neovim, modern vim
  • Primary - LunarVim, AstroNvim - LunarVim is not maintained any more
  • Experimental - doom-nvim, My own config (todo)

GUI tools

• dozer - hide menu items on macos
• Rectangle - window management on macos
• iGlance - macos system monitor
• cpuinfo - cpuinfo menuber app for mac
• vimr - Neovim GUI for macOS

Utilities

• Generate gitignore with gitignore.io

Further exploration

• Generic Lists - Terminals are sexy, awesome-shell
• grc - generic coloriser
• Task Management - taskwarrior, taskell
• skim - fzf like fuzzy finder in Rust
• the-way, code snippets manager for terminal
• rtx - Polyglot runtime manager (asdf rust clone)

Resources

• Primary mechanism adapted from -> Holman
• Very good reference for actucal shell scripts from -> macos empire
• Important reference for a complete dotfile -> Mathias Baynes
• Great reference for my needs (e.g. installing oh-my-zsh) -> zellwk dotfiles