Introduction

Comprises of my current console setup and commonly used tools

For the most part, I've been using the same configuration setup for over a decade. Since moving back to Linux, I've updated my knowledge of productivity tools within the ecosystem.

In addition to all of this we've replaced vim with neovim. This is one of the biggest changes to our dotfiles, as it meant rebuilding our text editor from the group up. Even though this is the case, we've managed to greatly improve our editor to the extent that it is a large improvement from what we had previously.

Now that ghostty has been released, we've dumped kitty in favour of it. This means that we've had to make some changes to our configuration files to accommodate this. We've also made some changes to our zsh configuration to make it more efficient and to make it easier to use.

We didn't like how opionated kitty was and it caused us a number of issues when we were trying to use it. We've found that ghostty is a lot more flexible and it's a lot easier to use.

The final change is swapping out solarized for catppuccin. This has been replaced with vim, KDE and zsh. We have left solarized as an option but as it stand, perhaps we've just been using solarized for so long, we're really liking the catppuccin theme.

Install

  git init &&
  git remote add origin git://github.com/baphled/dotfiles.git &&
  git pull &&
  git submodule init &&
  git submodule update --init --recursive &&
  git submodule status

Dependencies

We won't go into the first 3 tools, as they are so common, that there's plenty of resources touching on them already.

Git

Tmux

RVM

zinit

Sesh

Sesh

We've introduced this tool to help us manage our tmux sessions. We've been using tmux for a long time now, and we've always found it a bit of a pain to manage sessions. We've been using tmuxinator for a while now, but we've found that it can lead to having a large number of sessions open at once. This is where sesh comes in. It allows us to manage our sessions in a more efficient way. So we want to explore this tool further and see if it can help us to manage our sessions in a more efficient way.

Zoxide

Zoxide

We've tried to use autojump in the past, but we've found that it's not as efficient as we'd like it to be. We've heard good things about zoxide and we want to give it a try. Zoxide is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It remembers the directories you use most frequently and allows you to jump to them quickly in a more efficient way. We're hoping that this will help us to navigate our filesystem in a more efficient way.

We've also integrated it with sesh, tmux and fzf to make it easier to navigate our filesystem.

btop

htop has served us well but btop is it's natural successor. Not only is it more aesthetically pleasing but it provides us with a wealth of information relating to the state of the machine we're working on.

It supports a large number of systems, so we can have it running on pretty much anything and it's real-time information have proven invaluable to us in our day to day work.

https://clementtsang.github.io/bottom/nightly/usage/general-usage/

Neovim

We've been using vim for decades now, and using anything else seemed like a complete was of time. That is until we recently spent time exploring neovim. When we checked it out a number of years ago, we didn't see the point in migrating yet, but since then there has been a large number of changes to the ecosystem that made it impossible not to make the jump.

We've totally overhauled our vim setup, to work exclusively with neovim and we don't think we'll be looking back. Vim proved to make a massive impact on our day to day work, but neovim makes these improvements seem trivial.

We've extended it to the point of have an extremely advanced Personal Development Environment (PDE) as well as improving the look and feel of our editor as a whole.

This has not only greatly improved our workflow but it's also made it a lot more visually stimulating to work within.

fzf

We've also adopted fzf for fuzzy finding and integrated it into both zsh, tmux and neovim. This way we're able to quickly find things without our system in a uniform way.

exa

We use this as a replacement for ls. Mostly, this is used for previews within fzf but we also use it to display colourised information for files within our system.

ripgrep

find is classically fine for find files within a system but ripgrep is quite a bit quicker, which is important when we're working with directories that have a large amount of contents. It's also important to be able to generate fuzzy finder results as quickly as possible, and this is were ripgrep truly shines.

neofetch

I've always want to enhance how my terminal looks. For this we've introduced fastfetch to display information about the machine we're working on. We've further enhanced this by providing a script that picks a random image and renders it dependant on the terminal/emulator we're using. This keeps our terminal as consistent as possible whilst providing our own look and feel to it.

Development

git clone git://github.com/baphled/dotfiles.git
npm install

What's included

• Custom aliases to help me to get into projects
• Colourised git output
• Customised commands (see bin directory for more information)
• Customised Vim settings (my own concoction)