dotfiles

My dotfiles for Neovim, zsh, tmux, and alacritty, optimized for web development on macOS. Managed with Dotbot.

Terminal

I use Alacritty as my terminal emulator.

• ohmyzsh as my shell, which some custom plugins. plugin includes zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting

• Neovim on 0.8.2

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.8.2/nvim-macos.tar.gz
tar xzf nvim-macos.tar.gz
./nvim-macos/bin/nvim

• fnm, fast and simple node version manager. faster than nvm

• trash-cli, safeguard rm. Version 5 sometimes runs into node issues, stick with version 4 npm install --global trash-cli@v4.0.0. requires node

• starship prompts, minimal customizable prompts

• homebrew, package manager for macOS

brew install tmux lazygit jesseduffield/lazydocker/lazydocker exa zoxide fd ripgrep

• tmux, terminal multiplexer

• lazygit, simple terminal UI for git commands, requires git to be installed first

• lazydocker, the lazyier way to manage docker, requires docker to be installed first

• exa, replacement for ls

• zoxide, smarter cd

• fd, simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

• ripgrep, fast regex text searching in directories

Mac Settings

• System preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Motion. Toggle on

• System preferences > Accessibility > Display > Increase contrast. Toggle on

• System preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency. Toggle on

• System preferences > Accessibility > Pointer > Reduce mouse pointer to locate. Toggle on

• System preferences > Accessibility > Pointer > Pointer size. Slider to largest

• Dock > Size. Slider on 20%

• Dock > Magnification. Slider on Small

• Dock > Position on screen. Select Left

• Dock > Minimize windows into application icon. Toggle off

• Dock > Automatically hide and show the Dock. Toggle on

• Dock > Animate opening applications. Toggle on

• Dock > Show indicators for open applications. Toggle on

• Dock > Show recent applications in Dock. Toggle off

• Keyboard > Key Repeat. Fastest. Slider to largest

• Keyboard > Delay until Repeat. Shortest. Slider to largest

• Accessibility > Vision > Display > Pointer > Pointer Size. Largest. Slider to largest

• Desktop & Screen Saver > Wallpaper

Keyboard modifier keys

Apple Internal Keyboard

Custom Mechanical Keyboard

Programs

• vlc - Best media player

Font

• Hack Nerd Font

Interesting programs I may or may not pickup

• nnn terminal file manager
• vimium c vim key bindings for the browser
• lf another terminal file manager
• yazi another terminal file manager written in rust
• helix text editor inspired by neovim and kakoune
• zellij a terminal workspace, alternative to tmux