johnnovak / dotfiles

My universal dotfiles

Overview

This repo contains my universal dotfiles for OS X, Linux (native and WSL2), and Cygwin.

Tested on:

• macOS Sonoma (14.0)
• Debian 10 on WSL2 (Windows 10)
• Latest cygwin on Windows 10

Requirements

Common

• bash 5.0+ (macOS default is fine)
• zsh 5.7+ (macOS default is fine)
• git 2.20+ (macOS default is fine)
• GNU grep 3.3+
• tmux 2.8+
• neovim 0.8.0+

Platform specific

macOS

• kitty

WSL2

• wsltty
• win32yank for clipboard support in Neovim

Installation

Installing the dependencies

Linux

sudo apt install zsh tmux git curl

Optionally, if you want to use rxvt on X:

sudo apt install rxvt-unicode-256color

See this blog post for instructions on setting up a Vim-friendly desktop environment on Crunchbang++.

macOS

sudo port install grep coreutils tmux

To set the MacPorts zsh as the default shell:

sudo chpass -s '/opt/local/bin/zsh' $USER

Installing the dotfiles

Clone this repo somewhere (e.g. ~/.dotfiles) and then do the following:

cd ~/.dotfiles
./install.sh

The script only creates symlinks and is completely non-destructive; it creates backups of any existing files. You can also start it with -d for a dry-run.

If you are using a different location than ~/.dotfiles, you must manually set DOTFILES to point to the cloned repo in ~/.bashrc-pre and ~/.zshrc-pre after the installation.

Installing NeoVim plugins

1. Execute the following:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim\ &&
    ~/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim

2. Start NeoVim, then execute :PackerSync

Refer to the packer instructions for further details

.zshrc-pre suggestions

macOS

# Aliases
alias grep=ggrep
alias vim=nvim
alias dircolors=gdircolors

# Use nvim when editing git commits
EDITOR=nvim