My setup for MacOSX and Linux, with a focus on terminal, editor, shell, programming environments etc.

Screenshot on MacOSX

Screenshot on Ubuntu

• Introduction
• Quick Start - Clean MacOSX Machine
  • Manual Steps
• Ubuntu Terminal Configuration
• iTerm 2 Configuration
• Shell Commands
• Cheat Sheet - TMux
• Cheat Sheet - Vim
  • Plugins
• Tooling Choices
  • Vim
• TODO

The goal of this project is to provide a single command which will setup key features of the system. Each feature should be orthogonal and not depend on other features.

The following is set up:

• zsh as the default shell
• tmux for terminal multiplexing, with my preferred theme and settings
• vim as the default editor, with my preferred theme and settings
• ~/.private as a folder excluded from version control, the contents of which are always loaded on shell startup (ideal for project specific secrets etc)
• ~/.profile as a version controlled folder, the contents of which are always loaded on shell startup

On a completely clean Mac, run the following commands in a terminal.

# Install commandline tools (so that we have git).
xcode-select --install

# Create a working environment, in my standard format.
cd ~
mkdir -p repos/github/dwmkerr
cd repos/github/dwmkerr

# Clone the dotfiles - note that a new machine will not have my SSH key
# so this is over https.
git clone https://github.com/dwmkerr/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./setup.sh

There are a number of manual post-install steps:

1. Restore GPG keys from a backup.
2. Setup SSH keys for GitHub.
3. Load the iTerm and Terminal 'One Dark' colour schemes from the terminal folder.
4. Restore Parallels virtual machines from backup.
5. Actually install tmux plugins, using <leader> Ctrl+I (otherwise things like tmux-yank won't work).
6. Restore the ~/.private/ folder from a secure backup, to bring back project specific secrets.
7. Restore the AWS CLI credentials to bring back project access.
8. Setup SSH keys for GitHub.
9. Load the iTerm and Terminal 'One Dark' colour schemes from the terminal folder.
10. Restore Parallels virtual machines from backup.
11. Configure ~/.gitconfig from ./git/gitconfig.
12. Setup Vim NGINX syntax: https://arian.io/vim-syntax-highlighting-for-nginx/

Set the OneDark Theme with:

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denysdovhan/gnome-terminal-one/master/one-dark.sh)"

I've not yet been able to script this configuration. Here are the settings which are non-default:

• General: Selection - [X] Applications in terminal may access clipboard
• General: Window - [ ] Native full screen windows
• Profiles: Text - [X] Blinking cursor
• Profiles: Text - Font: 16 pt Hack
• Profiles: Window - Transparency: ~15%
• Profiles: Window - Style: Fullscreen
• Profiles: Terminal - [X] Silence bell
• Profiles: Keys - Left ⌥ key 'Esc+'
• Keys: HotKey - [X] Show/hide all windows with a system-wide hotkey (⌥ +Space)

The following shell commands are setup:

Here's a quick reference. My <Leader> is \, so I've written shortcuts as \x rather than <Leader>x for brevity. I still need to port the above to the structure below.

Note: including the vertical pipe | in the table above would cause rendering issues. So instead, the unicode character ｜ is used to illustrate the commands. Do not use the unicode character, use the normal ASCII 0x7C character.

This is a new list, it'll take some time to bring others up to date.

• vim-table-mode to aid with dynamic formatting of markdown tables

Why Vim Plug over Vundle?

I was impressed enough with the comments on this post to make the switch, particularly as coc doesn't support Vundle, meaning I had to give Plug a try.

• Autocomplete for docker/k8s is still not properly setup.