theZMC's Dotfiles

These are dotfiles. Most of the inspiration for how this repo is set up is taken from Dreams of Autonomy's fantastic dotfiles video.

Usage

1. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/thezmc/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles # or wherever you want to put it

2. Use stow to populate your home directory with symlinks for all of this repo's configuration files:

   cd ~/dotfiles
   
   # --no-folding symlinks files directly instead of directories
   # this prevents extra content in those directories from polluting
   # our dotfiles
   stow --no-folding -t "$HOME" .

3. Restart your terminal and wait for mise to do its thing. It installs only the tools the shell itself needs up front; everything else is marked lazy = true in .config/mise/config.toml and installs the first time you run one of its commands. To pre-install everything instead, run mise install --include-lazy.

That's it! Enjoy the dotfiles. If you want to use this is a base for your own configuration, you can rm -rf ~/dotfiles/.git && cd ~/dotfiles && git init to create your own git repo. Fair warning: the gnupg and ssh directories are pretty specific to my setup, so you may want to remove those first if you seriously want to use this as a base for your own config.