Stack

• Alacritty
• Neovim
• Tmux
• Zsh (no ohmyzsh)
• Raycast
• Lua scripts (in place of Bash)

Font: Nerdfont Hack

Some Interesting Things

The following may not be useful for your workflow but may inspire your own ideas

Alacritty & TMUX

My entire development workflow works out of Alacritty, which is just a terminal emulator.

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. A fancy way of saying "opens multiple terminals"

I run scripts (see lua-scripts) to open Tmux in a specific state based on work or home

• Opens: config folder, notes folder, project (specific to work/home), and a terminal reserved for servers

Stow

The project is manged by stow. -- The file structure may seem weird that's because:

The first folder is just a namespace for the user to know what's there.

So tmux/.config/tmux

Will create symlinks of a folder structure in ~/.config/tmux

• i.e. the first folder is ignored.

So tmux/.tmux-conf

Will create a symlink ~/.tmux-conf

Run stow */ to link all folders/files into ~ ($HOME)

Raycast

It's an alternative to Spotlight or Alfred

My hotkey is (CMD+SPACE). Open any application, resize windows, paste snippets.

• I primarily use this to open alacrity/chrome and navigate to specific hard to remember company URLs
  • e.g. my team's jira board

Lua Scripts

A project I created to simplify writing bash like scripts in lua.

Huge caveat, these run in a child thread, not your current thread.

So imagine you want to export a bash variable. The variable gets set in the child, not the current shell.

• So you could export an artifact or auth token, use that token in the current process, but once it ends that token won't be availabe like you'd imagine

The upside is that control blocks, string manipulation, using tables, etc... is all very easy compared to bash.

• The commands are then piped to the shell, or to tmux.

See files like css-utils, scripts to rewrite/refactor files can be done just by chaining luagrep and string manipulation.

Projects

• p is a utility for jumping into projects fast
• pn is a utility for jumping into neovim fast

p will open an FZF prompt of all of my projects.

• Select a project to navigate to that selection

Composable, type pn to open a prompt that will open that folder in neovim

• Hypothetically you could do the same with VS Code

Neovim

During development one of the biggest speed gains I get (aside from vim motions and plugins like sneak) is through two plugins

• Harpoon (Setting marks in files and opening terminals inside neovim)
• Quick Switcher (My own plugin, allows switching based on prefix / alternatve files)

I can set a mark in a file such as ticket.component.ts

• Now via switcher I can jump to ticket.component.ts|ticket.component.scss|ticket.component.spec.ts|ticket.model.ts|ticket.effects.ts|etc...

Setup marks for 2-4 files at a time and you can quickly navigate between 12+ files quickly with relatively few keybinds

Additionally, I can run tests/servers in neovim. Then when there's an issue or failure I can use gf to, go to file, straight from the terminal

Zsh

The zsh config, taken from chris@machine, does completion and suggestions without installing ohmyzsh

• i.e. it's less bloat.

Start from Zero (Mac)

Install Brew cd ~ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Clone Me git clone https://github.com/Everduin94/dotfiles.git

Install Stow brew install stow

Run Stow cd dotfiles stow */

Dotfiles should now be avilable in ~/.config

Install All Apps brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts xargs brew install < .brew-starter.list xargs brew install --cask < .brew-cask-starter.list

Authenticate Github gh auth login gh auth setup-git

Setup Raycast

Not sure how to automate this

There should be a file ending in .raycast in your home (~), open Raycast Preferences and import that file.

Manual Improvements

• Increase key repeat: System > Keyboard: Max both settings
• Rebind Caps: Click Modifier Keys in Bottom Right: Set Caps Lock to ESC
• Turn off spotlight: System Settings > Spotlight >Shortcuts
• Hide toolbar: System Preferences > Docks & Menu > Automatically hide

Optional Setup

Install Lua Deps (for Lua-Scripts [custom scripts]) luarocks install luaposix

Install Lua Language Server (for Lua LSP in Neovim)

cd .config/nvim
git clone https://github.com/sumneko/lua-language-server
cd lua-language-server
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd 3rd/luamake
ninja -f compile/ninja/macos.ninja
cd ../..
./3rd/luamake/luamake rebuild

Caveat: This doesn't resolve to same path for me anymore. May have to adjust in lua-ls.lua

Setup project functionality

• p is a utility for jumping into projects fast
• pn is a utility for jumping into neovim fast

See projects for examples. bash variables resolve to their path, are piped to fzf, the selection is piped to cd

Setup Language Servers npm install -g @angular/language-server npm i @angular/cli npm install -g typescript typescript-language-server npm i -g vscode-langservers-extracted

Install Tmux Plugins

caveat I don't know that I really use resurrect anymore, I just run my script

While in tmux Prefix+I. Prefix is (CTRL+B)

Arch Setup (WIP)

This works on Arch minus Raycast and Mac specific things

I don't currently have the pacman & yay lists setup.

Caveats:

• Have to adjust alacritty decoration to none
• Lua LS install script needs to be adjusted for linux