danny's dotfiles

Installing

Setup dotfiles:

1. ./install.sh
2. exec bash or exec zsh to get shell changes

Then update VS Code's settings:

{
    "editor.fontFamily": "'FiraCode Nerd Font', Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace",
    "editor.fontLigatures": "'ss02'", // <=, >= variants
    "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'FiraCode Nerd Font', Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace",
}

Development

I've tried to keep things pretty straightforward so that, in theory, it would be pretty easy for someone to fork and hack on this to make it their own.

It would be very helpful to have a general understanding of chezmoi. It has a great model for syncing dotfiles, namely:

• Your dotfiles are managed with a "source" directory (a locally cloned git repo) and a "target" directory (your home directory).
• You manage intended changes to your dotfiles in the source directory and apply them with chezmoi apply. You can preview changes with dry-runs.
• File names are annotated with prefixes and suffixes as directives to do things like create symlinks, run scripts, etc.
• Much file content and chezmoi configuration can be conditionally generated on the fly using a simple templating language.

Some things to know about how I've set this up:

• This project uses a .chezmoiroot file, so your home directory files, scripts, chezmoi configuration, etc. are all actually in /home/.
• Variables to target specific environments such as Windows, Mac, Linux, dev containers, etc. are defined in /home/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl.
• Scripts that run on chezmoi apply are found in /home/.chezmoiscripts/. Mac and Linux run .sh scripts and Windows runs .ps1 scripts.
• Scripts that need to run on even more specific platforms are narrowed with file patterns in /home/.chezmoiignore using /home/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl.
• The /home/dot_dotfiles directory is used for improved organization of scripts sourced by other application's runtime config scripts.
• All else is generally configuration specific to an platform, application, and/or feature like a font that expects files to be in a specific place.

If you want to make this your own, a good place to start poking around would be in /home/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl, /home/.chezmoiscripts/, and /home/.chezmoiignore.

References

• Template functions
  • Go template functions
  • Sprig template functions
  • Chezmoi init template functions
• fzf
  • Keybindings
  • Search patterns