These are my dotfiles

fish

After years of using zsh with a cargo-culted configuration, I gave up on it and switched to the Friendly Interactive Shell, aka fish. It has a simplified scripting language, has sane defaults, and straightforward auto-complete features. There's not much to see in the config file, because fish doesn't believe in configurability.

I'm using fisher to manage "plugins".

gitconfig

I used to use the git command line a lot. Then I discovered Magit, then was mostly satisfied with the built-in tools in VSCode, and now I'm using those (when using VSCode), LazyGit or Fork. There's still a lot of aliases in there, here are the ones I still use:

• amend: commit --amend after an accidental commit -amend and instead of --amend that took an hour to undo, I started this list.
• fold:merge --no-ff takes some branches and merges them in, keeping their full branch and commit history.
• goto <refspec>: reset --hard <refspec> hard resets to the given refspec
• undo: reset --soft HEAD^ Revert a commit, but leave its contents as staged.

I haven't cleaned it up because I'm lazy.

Editors

I'm currently using Zed as my main text editor, and am managing its keymap and settings in the config file here. I have yet to find a reliable way to sync installed extensions & themes for Zed via source control.

For some work I'm still using VSCode, and am mostly having success in storing its settings in git in this repo, despite their attempts to force you to sync settings via their service. The settings & keybindings files are in settings/vscode and manually symlinked to their typical home on the mac in ~/Library/Application Support.

I sync extensions via bin/codex which stores state in a file in configs/.config/vscode/extensions. This mostly works, as long as I keep it up-to-date.

I don't use VSCode Settings Sync for a number of reasons, but the primary one is that I will not under any circumstances sign into personal accounts on machines I do not own. Throughout my career and the lifetime of this repository I have worked on about a dozen machines I do not own, and I can still sync and manage updates to this repository from those machines via per-employer/client accounts here through git. I could not do that through VSCode Settings Sync.

Install

• on mac: bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://github.com/mattly/dotfiles/blob/master/install/mac_bootstrap)"

  This gets you homebrew, a pub key to put on GitHub, git, this repository cloned, the config files symlinked, .emacs.d, and fish as the default shell.

  From there, brew bundle the desired files in install/

Using the Magic Trackpad in Windows

https://www.labnol.org/software/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows/14158/

1. Download this patch from the Apple website but don’t run it yet. It’s an executable file but it won’t run on your Windows Desktop since it is intended only for users who are running Windows inside a Mac desktop using Boot Camp.

2. Download a copy of 7-zip and extract the contents of the exe file that you’ve downloaded in the previous step

3. This will create a new file called “BootCampUpdate32.msp” – extract the contents of this file as well using 7-zip again.

4. You’ll now have several sub-folders that are named like BootCamp3135*. One of these folders will have a file called “Binary.AppleWirelessTrackpad_Bin” – just add a .exe extension to this file and then double-click to run it.

This will install the Apple Wireless Trackpad driver on your Windows machine without requiring Boot Camp and you should now be able to pair the Magic Trackpad with the PC.

The Trackpad device driver is available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 computers. As some readers pointed out, the same approach can be used to get your Magic Mouse work with Windows.