dotfiles

My dotfiles. https://github.com/davidosomething/dotfiles
My /uses post may be of interest to you!

Screenshot of my Zsh prompt

Tool	Link
OS support	Arch, macOS, Debian, Ubuntu
Terminal emulator	WezTerm
Font	Maple Mono
Shell	Zsh
Shell plugins	Zinit
Editor	Neovim
Tooling/env	mise

• XDG compliance wherever possible to keep $HOME clean
  • See Arch Linux wiki for XDG Base Directory Support
  • See Debian DotFilesList
  • See grawity's notes and environ notes
• RC files for Lua, markdownlint, node, PHP, python, R, and others

Installation

See macOS specific notes in mac/README.md

1. Install the dotfiles first.

   git clone https://github.com/davidosomething/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles

   Then, run the bootstrap/symlink script.

2. After symlinking, start zsh or restart the shell -- e.g. run exec zsh. (If zsh is not available, consider installing it with the system package manager. It is default on mac os.)
   This will trigger zinit to install.
   Once mise is installed via zinit you may see warnings about npm dependencies and env vars not defined.

   • Define the env vars using a zshrc in $LDOTDIR or a local mise config or unversioned ~/.config/mise/conf.d/*.toml file with [env] section.
   • You should also generate SSH keys using sshkeygen if you do not already have them.

3. mise trust && mise install to install mise-managed tools.

4. Run bootstrap/cleanup to clean up stray dotfiles, moving into their XDG Base Directory supported directories and deleting unnecessary things (with confirmation).

Updating

u is an alias to dot. Use u without arguments for usage.

Notes

• bin/
  • There's a readme in bin/ describing each script/binary. This directory is in the $PATH.
• git/
  • The comment character is # instead of ; so I can use Markdown in my commit messages without trimming the headers as comments. This is also reflected in a custom Vim highlighting syntax
• nvim/
  • See nvim/README.md for more information.
• python/
  • Never sudo pip. Set up a python virtual environment.

Local dotfiles are read from $LDOTDIR.

• Put files zshrc, bashrc, npmrc, and gitconfig here and they will be automatically sourced, LAST, by the default scripts. No dots on the filenames (i.e. not .zshrc).

rc script source order

If you have node installed, the dkosourced command will show you (not exhaustively) the order scripts get sourced. Without node echo $DKO_SOURCE works.

For X apps (no terminal) the value may be:

/etc/profile
.xprofile
  shell/vars
    shell/xdg

Credits

Logo from jglovier/dotfiles-logo