MacOS setup

Create directory to store code

mkdir -p ~/src/github.com

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/drofloh/mac_setup.git ~/src/github.com/drofloh/mac_setup

xcode

Developer / cli tools

xcode-select —-install

Homebrew

Package manager for MacOS

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Hack Font

Install the Hack Regular Nerd Font Complete which provides many extra glyphs, needed for personal oh-my-zsh-custom theme.

iTerm2

Better terminal for MacOS

• install using homebrew

brew cask install iterm2

• reset iTerm2 preferences back to defaults

defaults delete com.googlecode.iterm2

• specify where to load preferences from, eg:

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2.plist PrefsCustomFolder -string "~/src/github.com/drofloh/mac_setup/iterm_config"

• set iTerm2 to use custom folder specified above for preferences

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2.plist LoadPrefsFromCustomFolder -bool true

Terminal colours / inspriation from iterm2-material-design

zsh + oh my zsh

• install latest zsh

brew install zsh

• install oh-my-zsh and accept option to make zsh default shell

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• clone oh-my-zsh-custom theme

git clone https://github.com/drofloh/oh-my-zsh-custom.git ~/src/github.com/drofloh/oh-my-zsh-custom

• add syntax highlighting and autosuggestions plugins

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/src/github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/src/github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

• create link to zshrc (back up current one first if necessary)

ln -s ~/src/github.com/drofloh/mac_setup/dotfiles/.zshrc ~/.zshrc

• reload profile

source ~/.zshrc

dotfiles

create symlinks in home dir to dotfiles in ~/src/github.com/drofloh/mac_setup/dotfiles, eg:

ln -s <source> <destination>