Dotfiles

This repo should be cloned to your home repo so that the path is ~/dotfiles/.

The makesymlinks.sh script creates symlinks from your home directory to the files which are located in ~/dotfiles/. The script will also back up existing dotfiles into ~/dotfiles_old/.

Prerequisites

• rg must be installed for some of the Vim searching functionality. ripgrep.
• xclip must be installed to copy text in tmux copy mode.
• The editor to be used by git, and hence tig, must be set in the /etc/gitconfig file on a particular system.
• Vim version 8 is required for the vim-gutentags plugin.
• highlight is required for fancy preview of files using fzf.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/cferriter/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./makesymlinks.sh

Useful Links

Includes some repos used as inspiration.

• GitHub Dotfiles: GitHub guide to dotfiles.
• Dotfiles: Copied makesymlinks.sh script here.
• Other Dotfiles: Copied automatic vim-plug download logic from here.
• Solarized Modern PuTTY Defaults: Copied PuTTY Windows registry (.reg) file here.
• Bash startup files: Explains the loading order of Bash files.
• Vim Awesome: Vim plugin directory.
• Why Vim?: Useful article with Vim usage examples.
• idiomatic-vimrc: .vimrc guidelines.
• System clipboard and Vim: Explains some of the intricacies behind using the system clipboard and Vim as well as SSHing.
• universal-ctags: A more capable ctags implementation.
• SSH keys and Pageant with Windows 10: Explains how to use Pageant for SSH key authentication when using SSH to access remote servers.

Vim Plugins

vim-plug is used to install and manage the list of plugins below.

• sensible.vim: Sensible .vimrc defaults.
• Solarized Colorscheme for Vim.
• fzf vim: Fuzzy searching tool (mainly used for file and tag searching).
• ack.vim: Search tool which can make use of ripgrep.
• vim-polyglot: A collection of language packs for Vim.
• NERD Commenter.
• vim-searchindex: Display number of search matches.
• tig-explorer.vim: Jump to tig diff or blame view of current file.
• Cscove: Attempts to find proper cscope database for current file and prompts cscope file creation when file not found. Also provides interface to cscope searches.
• Gutentags: Automatic tag file regeneration.
• sleuth.vim: Automatic detection of indent settings.
• Visual Star Search: Use asterisk to search for visually highlighted text.
• Vimwiki: Linked text files with custom syntax highlighting.
• vimux: Interact with tmux from Vim shortcuts (mainly used for repeating the previous command in a tmux pane split with the current pane).
• vim-qf: Scale quickfix window with Vim window height.

Configuring KiTTY

KiTTY is a fork of PuTTY with extra features. Most interestingly, it allows font size to be changed easily and dynamically. Steps to set up KiTTY are below.

• Execute the PuTTY registry file in the repo by double-clicking on it in the Windows file explorer.
• Download the "KiTTY Windows no compression" binary.
• Rename the binary to KiTTY.exe.
• Move the binary to C:\Program Files (x86)\KiTTY\KiTTY.exe.
• Add the below KiTTY specific settings to the C:\Users\windows_username\AppData\Roaming\KiTTY\kitty.ini file.

; Decrease font size
fontdown={CONTROL}{F10}
; Increase font size
fontup={CONTROL}{F11}
; Switch to full screen
fullscreen={F11}
; special command box (default is CONTROL+F8)
input={CONTROL}{F8}

If your PuTTY registry file is updated and executed again, press CTRL+F8 in a KiTTY session and type /copytokitty.

Configuring Windows Terminal for SSH

Key-based authentication

Follow steps from this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_keymanagement

For the last step, "Deploying the public key", use the following command in PowerShell to deploy the public key onto a Linux machine:

type $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub | ssh user@hostname "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys"