mateonunez / dotfiles

Colemak dotfiles configuration that gives you superpowers.

📁 dotfiles

✨ What is this?

This is my personal dotfiles repository. It contains all the configuration files for my system.

I'm using the Colemak layout, so I have to change some keybindings in some programs like tmux, vim, vscode, etc.

💡 The navigation

Everything is based on vim navigation. Usually, you can navigate through the files with hjkl keys, but I've changed it for hnei keys. This because the Colemak layout has the h key in the same position, the j key is in the n position, the k key is in the e position and the l key is in the i position.

Note: All the keys were mapped to the Colemak layout, this means that the f key (find char) is in the t position, the d key (delete char) is in the s position, etc.

Yep, it's a little bit confusing 🤯, but it's very useful when you're using the Colemak layout and/or you want easily switch to the qwerty layout.

📦 vim

The vim configuration is really basic. It contains just the basic Colemak keybindings and some general configurations.

How to run it?

$ git clone https://github.com/mateonunez/dotfiles ~/.somewhere
$ ln -s ~/.somewhere/.vimrc ~/.vimrc

Please backup your ~/.vimrc file before running the previous command.

Create the swap and undo directories

$ mkdir ~/.vim/swap
$ mkdir ~/.vim/undo

📦 tmux

I really love tmux, it's a great tool for managing your terminal sessions. I've created a basic configuration file for it, based on oh-my-tmux and of course, with the Colemak keybindings (it uses the vi navigation to walk on the file).

Prefix key: Ctrl + a

Panel navigation

The panel navigation follows my default Colemak keybindings, so you can navigate through the panels with hnei keys.

• Focus right panel: Ctrl + a + i
• Focus left panel: Ctrl + a + h
• Focus top panel: Ctrl + a + n
• Focus bottom panel: Ctrl + a + e

Panel resizing

Also, you can resize the panels with HNEI keys.

• Resize to the right: Ctrl + a + Shift + i (or I)
• Resize to the left: Ctrl + a + Shift + h (or H)
• Resize to the top: Ctrl + a + Shift + n (or N)
• Resize to the bottom: Ctrl + a + Shift + e (or E)

Copy mode

The copy mode is based on the vi navigation, so you can navigate through the text with hnei keys.

Requirements:

• On Linux: xclip package and reattach-to-user-namespace.
• On macOS: pbcopy package.
• On Windows: Who knows.

For Linux and macOS, you can install the reattach-to-user-namespace package with brew install reattach-to-user-namespace or sudo apt install reattach-to-user-namespace and switch to the right program in the configuration file.

To trigger the copy mode, you have to press Ctrl + a + [. Then, you can navigate through the text with hnei keys and select the text with v key. Once you've selected the text, you can copy it with:

• j (y in qwerty): copy to the clipboard.
• Ctrl + c: copy to the clipboard and exit the copy mode.

How to run it?

$ git clone https://github.com/mateonunez/dotfiles ~/.somewhere
$ ln -s ~/.somewhere/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
$ ln -s ~/.somewhere/.tmux.conf.local ~/.tmux.conf.local

Please backup your ~/.tmux.conf and ~/.tmux.conf.local files before running the previous commands.

📦 nvim

The nvim configuration is based on: NvChad.

The most important thing is that the /config/nvim/init.lua file loads, at the end of the file, the keymaps.vim configuration. It's basically the same file of .vimrc config but without the vim configuration.

vim.cmd [[source ~/.config/nvim/lua/custom/keybindings.vim]]

This is still a work in progress.

📦 vscode

The vscode configuration contains just the generics settings and some keybindings to improve UX.

📦 zsh

Generic zsh configuration that contains some aliases, the theme and the plugins.

📝 License

MIT.

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