My Dotfiles

This repo is for tracking my dotfiles. It currently contains the following:

• Ansible Scripts (for quickly installing and configuring software on a new computer)
• Bash/Zsh Config Scripts
• Git Configs
• i3 configs
• Tmux Config
• Vim/Nvim Config

Config files are managed through GNU Stow.

Dockerfile and Makefile are included so I can test this setup easily.

Prerequisites

• Machine has docker installed
• Machine has make installed

For a Personal Machine

• Primary user account is named benjamin

Postrequisites

1. Install tmux plugins using Signal + Shift + I.
2. Run the following mise commands to install the latest versions of my primary programming languages: a. mise install python@latest b. mise install node@latest c. mise install go@latest
3. Run sudo npm install -g cspell

Testing with Docker

1. build the docker container by running docker build .
2. get the container ID by running docker images
3. run the container using docker run -i -v ${PWD}:/home/ubuntu/dot_files -t <CONTAINER_ID> /bin/bash
4. navigate to /home/ubuntu/dot_files in the container and execute ansible-playbook desktop_config.yml

Per-Machine Configuration

I have made this possible in the following ways:

• for Z-Shell:
  • put config in ~/local.zsh
• for Git:
  • if on a work machine, put config in ~/work/.gitconfig
  • if on a personal machine, set up name and email in ~/.identityconfig
• for Neovim:
  • put local plugin config in nvim/.config/nvim/lua/plugins/local.lua

TODOs

• replace pyright with basedpyright
• explore scripting postrequisites
• replace none-ls with conform.nvim + nvim-lint
• make ansible scripts idempotent
• setup debugging
• Automate creation of ~/.identityconfig with git name + email
• Pull dependencies from Snap instead of APT
• Refactor custom nvim commands to use Lua instead of Vimscript
• automate install of docker-compose
• Rename ubuntu script
• Set up ranger config
• look into nvim plugins:
  • trouble
  • bufferline
  • lualine
  • neotest
  • neotest-vitest