Kai's Dotfiles

My dotfiles and some script to help me setup new machines. A collection of things configs and tweaks I use on a regular basis. Includes installation and configuration of zsh and my MacOS defaults. Tested on MacOS Catalina.

Inspired by several dotfile repositories around the net. First and foremost: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles

Usage

First, add your gitconfig and ssh config into the corresponding folders. Then, if you want to execute the whole shebang and setup you're machine just like me simply call

bash bootstrap.sh

This will install brew and some of the core software I always use e.g. Spotify, Firefox, VS Code, .... It will prompt for setting all the default MacOS configuration settings in macos.sh and install my default terminal profile for the MacOs terminal and Iterm2.

Also installs:

• colorls
• istats
• pandoc
• mactex
• sdkman

The bootstrap script also copies all dotfiles to the appropriate position.

If you only want to link the dotfiles call link_dotfiles.sh

Python related things

In case you don't want to use poetry for a project, you can use the following commands to handle virtual environments for python. Create a new Python environment with jupyter and ipython installed.

mkenv <name>

Equivalently

listenv
rmenv <name>
activate <name>
deactivate

Useful Shell functions

Show all unpushed changes in $HOME/Development

changes

Compress one or multiple PDF files

pdfcompress *.pdf

Defaults

MacOS Settings:

1. Three finger Drag
2. Smaller Dock Icons
3. Keyboard repeat
4. etc.

Tmux:

1. Use Ctrl-A just like screen

VS Code:

1. Usefull snippets for main and embed
2. Some of my regular used VSCode extensions like window color per project and other language related things.

NeoVim:

1. Replace vim with alias to nvim
2. Use Airline Addon