My dotfiles

Requirements

• MacOS or Ubuntu
• Git
• root access

Installation

Walk through to install and configure a new MacOS or Linux box

These scripts are idempotent, meaning they can be run again and won't break anything. So if you encounter an error, please fix, it and re-run the install. Once you have it working, feel free to submit a PR.

Install Brew

Browse to https://brew.sh/ and install brew or

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

It's a bit of chicken and egg problem as the installer WILL install Brew but you want to be already running from iTerm.

Install iTerm

brew install iterm2

Install script

While running iterm do the install script

# Clone this repo into your home directory
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/chrishirsch/dotfiles.git
# Run the install script
cd dotfiles/install
./install.sh

While running install and at iTerm, you SHOULD be asked to run p10k configure. Once here go to iTerm

iTerm

• Run p10k configure (if not already prompted)
• Select Install fonts
• Quit all of iTerm as requested
• Restart iTerm and if things don't quite look right, re-run the install.sh and/or p10k configure

Make SURE that you're running iTerm2 when attempting to configure zsh and p10k otherwise nothing works!

ohmyzsh

If you see zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list. Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]?

You will need to run compaudit and note that there is a directory with incorrect permissions. Fix this by:

compaudit | xargs chmod g-w

and validate its working again by opening a new iTerm with no errors.

Setting up Visual Studio Code

Repeating Keys on OSX

To get repeating keys for vi mode:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled 0

Enabling Sync

Settings Sync Plugin is now DEPRECATED

Add the Settings Sync plugin by Shan Khan and then login to Git. Select the Gist and then do Shift+Option+D (or Shift+Alt+D) to download and sync

Ensure that

Select Command "Sync : Advanced Options > Toggle Auto-Upload on Settings Change" command to Turn ON 

is ENABLED by Shift+Cmd+P and then Sync: Advanced Options > Toggle Auto-Upload on Settings Change (You may have to toggle it depending on it's current default but definitely make sure it's ON)

MS Sync

Unfortunately the Settings Sync that worked perfect with Git and Gists and was private is no longer. So now we get to expose everything to MS to sync. Progress!

To enable the built in Settings Sync, click on the Gear in the lower left, Backup and Sync Settings, Sign in to GitHub (if this is personal or you wish to sync to a SPECIFIC GitHub, make sure you're logged in there first. It won't ask for credentials). You can also sync from your personal settings by signing into the personal, get everything synced, sign out and then sign in with your other account and sync there. Obviously that's a one-shot but at least you get all your plugins, etc.

Git

For the most part, git should be setup and ready to go from the installer. There will probably be site specific settings (ie your git email for the company you are developing for may be different). If so, just create a ~/.gitconfig.user file

[user]
        name = Chris Hirsch
        email = [email protected]

[credential]
        helper = cache --timeout 2592000
        helper =
        helper = /usr/local/share/gcm-core/git-credential-manager
        guiPrompt = false

[commit]
        gpgSign = true

[credential "https://dev.azure.com"]
        useHttpPath = true

This will override any more general config in ~/.gitconfig