lucy's dotfiles

bootstrap an environment in one go¹ with:

ansible-playbook up.yml

use --tags or --skip-tags to only execute a subset of tasks. for example:

ansible-playbook --tags stow up.yml
ansible-playbook --skip-tags brew up.yml

or, use stow directly: stow <package>, assuming you've put this repository in your home directory, ~/dotfiles. if that's not the case, specify home as the target with -t ~, for example, stow -t ~ nvim.

thanks to frdmn for ansible inspiration.

TODO

• Replace fzf with fzf-lua

fzf integrations

tmux-only binds are prefixed with my leader key, C-g. note that the others won't work outside of the shell - they're only valid in vicmd or viins mode. i've made some custom binds:

• C-g C-w: select a pane from the text contents
• C-g C-u: select and open a URL from the current pane
• C-g C-v: select a variable from the current pane and put at cursor
• C-g C-b: select and open a URL from safari history
• C-u: select and open a URL from safari history

default zsh integrations are set up too:

• C-r: pick from command history and put at cursor
• C-t: pick file and put at cursor
• M-c: cd to a folder

neovim

stow nvim

a distant relative of kickstart with many mutations.

some external tools needed. in general :checkhealth helps identify any missing programs. most of these can be installed via the brew task in the playbook.

based on a split-heavy post-IDE workflow. perma-zen mode & fuzzy finders. i'm very particular about my tools. i need a level of consistency, so that's what i've tried to set up here. expect consistent ui and ux where ever possible.

alacritty

stow alacritty

back to alacritty! it's a smaller binary and i don't use the fancy features of ghostty or kitty.

tmux

stow tmux

i have a slightly modified key mapping set up to emulate something between zellij and vim:

C-g           - leader
C-g [h|j|k|l] - to left/below/above/right pane
C-g s         - split pane
C-g v         - vsplit pane

git

stow git

sets up some reasonable config defaults.

zsh

i use zsh because it is default. i use completions via compsys. it works!

my .zshrc is controlled via ansible by inserting a managed block. this allows for per-workstation additions with minimal headache.

Footnotes

1. assuming you are on mac with at least brew and optionally java and go installed. ↩