tomkimsour / dotfiles

My dotfiles for my daily life usage with zsh, nvim, alacritty and tmux

Welcome to my dotfiles!

They're finally organized (for now). I've started using stow to manage my dotfiles using symlinks. If you're interested in figuring out how that works for yourself, here is a great blog post on it. Note that there are some initial steps you'll need to clone my entire config.

Dependencies

For zsh I use oh-my-zsh with powerlevel10k.

yabai is a wm for macOS

tmux config uses tpm

skhd is a keybinder for macOS

sketchybar is a toolbar of macOS

GNU Stow

If you already have an existing config you want to back up, create your dotfiles repository, then run stow .zshrc --adopt to set the contents of your dotfiles' .zshrc for example, to what you have configured at ~/.zshrc. You can also map packages like nvim, doom, etc. you just need to follow the right directory hierarchy as shown in the blog linked above.

Installing on a fresh machine

Typically if I'm installing on a machine that has an existing configuration for a package, I'll use the --adopt directive for GNU stow, then do a git restore. Here's what that looks like:

1. Clone the repo and cd in there.
2. For each package in the repo that you want symlinked, run stow <package>. You will need to use --adopt if the package already exists on the machine. This creates a symlink for the package to your dotfiles repo.
3. If you want to use the config you had previously stored in your dotfiles repo, then run git restore <dir> or git restore . if you're feeling wild. If you want to overwrite the neovim config you had in your dotfiles repo with the one you have currently at ~/.config/nvim, then don't do the restore.

Warning

The --adopt flag will overwrite the contents of your current directory with the contents from your target directory. Please be careful.

Neovim

For neovim, I use LazyVim with neovim 0.10 # NB: if your compiler is too old, intall from the following repo https://github.com/neovim/neovim-releases/releases/tag/stable

1. If you have an existing neovim installation, delete any existing runtime dir you have for neovim to prevent errors in your new version. usr/local/nvim/runtime. See :checkhealth of your current neovim install to confirm what the path is on your machine.
2. Install the last stable version of neovim, I recommand using bob-nvim as a nvim package manager
3. Run nvim
4. This will install all of your nvim plugins.
5. Once finished, quit and restart to make sure everything is working
6. I am using LazyVim, I recommand you give a look at their documentation for tailoring your configuration.