Mathieu's dotfiles

How to install

This is a repo to store my dotfiles. To install, checkout this in ~/dotfiles, cd into it and run stow .. If you don't have GNU stow, install it using your package manager first (brew on mac)

Once stow is available, from this repo checkout folder, run

stow nvim
stow ohmyposh
stow home
stow atuin

The installation scripts

The dotfiles_installer folder contains some installation scripts.

• /dotfiles_installer/install-dependencies.sh: Install some dependencies using brew on OSX or APT on Ubuntu
• /dotfiles_installer/configure-git.sh: Set the username and email for git

Highlights

Here is a short list of the different plugins installed and how to use them.

Search

• CTRL+R allows you to search in the command history with Atuin database
• CTRL+T allows you to search for a file in the current directory (or sub-directories)

Navigation

• cd ... will show you a list of all the parent folder. If you select one, it will move you in this directory
• [folder name], instead of tying cd folder you can just type the folder name to navigate into it
• z [folder] is using Zoxide to do fuzzy jump across folders

Clipboard

• copydir will copy the path of the current directory in the clipboard
• copyfile [file] will copy the content of file into the clipboard
• [command] | clipboard will pipe the command result into the clipboard (osx only)

Git

• k is an git enhanced version of ls
• many aliases:
  • git addf: add individual files to the index (use TAB to select the files)
  • git switch: show the list of recent branches to switch to
  • git publish: push the current branch to a branch with the same name on origin
  • git fpush: like publish but as force push
  • git wip: Commit everything with a message 'WIP'
  • git undo-commit: Undo last commit
  • git nb [branch-name]: Create a branch and checkout it immediately (nb = new branch)
  • git s: status
  • git a: add
  • git co: checkout
  • git cm: commit and amend
  • git rea: abort rebase
  • git rec: continue rebase
  • git delete-merged-branches: Delete merged branches. THIS IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. BRANCHES MERGED BUT WITH LATER COMMIT MIGHT BE DELETED
  • git lgp: an interactive git history using fzf, with preview
• the default diff has been replaced with diff-so-fancy, providing a better experience

Other

• peco is like grep but with interactive filtering capabilities
• fzf is a selection tool. You can pipe lines to it and it will allow you to select some
• ncdu is a better version of du to find out how big is a folder and sub-folder
• htop is a better version of top
• bat is a better version of cat. An alias is done to use bat when typing cat
• direnv is not a command, but an automatic process. If you enter a folder with a .envrc file, the variable in the file are automatically exposed. When you leave the folder, they are removed