These dotfiles have been built from the ground up with modern standards and 3 goals: Speed, simplicity, and elegance.
The goal of this repository is to provide inspiration for your own dotfiles, and not necessary just a copy-paste solution. As such, I've tried to document the reason I install everything, instead of simply what I installed. This should give you a basis to cherry-pick the features you want, and leave the rest that you don't need.
A quick list of all the configurations that are in this repo, and why I chose the tools I did:
A powerful keyboard remapping tool that allows me to remap keys on my keyboard to make it more comfortable to use.
What's Remapped:
- The Caps Lock key has been rebound to the
Hyperkey, which is essentially all the modifiers combined, serving as an additional modifier key. - The
Hyperkey, when used withP,N,W, andAhave been remapped to Control, to suit use withnvimandtmux
Why Kitty?
- It's the fastest terminal emulator out there, hardware-tested with a keyboard-to-photon latency sensor
- It's has a ton of modern terminal features like ligatures, emojis, graphics, and more
- It's completely customizable
I mainly chose ZSH because it's more customizable than Bash, and it's also the default shell for macOS now.
I have decided to opt-out of a package manager, mainly because of my small amount of plugins, and the speed bonus that comes with not having a package manager.
This config loads in under a quarter of a second on my M1 MacBook Air.
Here's what I have installed:
- Powerlevel10k Prompt: Enables transient prompt, to reduce clutter
- Pure Theme: A super clean theme that displays only the necessary info
- ZSH Syntax Highlight: Shows syntax errors before I run the command
- Zoxide: Making directory navigation faster and easier
This Neovim configuration is completely custom-built, on the Lazy plugin manager.
There's a ton of things in there, so check out the .config/nvim/README.md for more info.
More comprehensive installation instructions coming soon!
To install these dotfiles, simply clone the repo, and run stow ..
As I have explained in the start, I still strongly recommend cherry-picking features that you like! It's always more beneficial to build the config yourself, rather than copying it completely from someone else.