This is a repository of all the dotfiles that I use to optimise my development workflow. Quickly install and manage your .zshrc file, .vimrc file and terminal configurations with sensible and sane defaults without fuss on any RHEL flavored Linux distribution.

I use:

• Zsh - a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.

  • Oh My Zsh - a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
  • Powerlevel10k - a Zsh Theme.
  • JetBrains Mono from Nerd Fonts - Yes JetBrains has a font, and I happen to like it. Preview JetBrains Mono
  • Douglas Black's .zshrc - Basically stole the best parts of his .zsh configurations from Doug Black's dotfiles repo.
  • Tmux - Tmux is a terminal multiplexer (t = terminal, mux = multiplexer)

• Vim - A powerful terminal based IDE written by Bram Moolenaar. Vim is charityware.

  • Vundle - for plugins. Pretty much the most standard manager around. I know that vim-plug is also popular at the moment.
  • Everforest - An aesthetically pleasing theme. In my opinion anyway.
  • Douglas Black's .vimrc - Basically stole the best parts of his vim configurations Doug Black's dotfiles repo.
  • Vim Awesome - Nice site with a decent list of vim plugins.

To keep things exciting, I called my bootstrapper ./hello-universe.sh.

I've kept it very simple. Call the bootstrapper by running:

• $ sh ./hello-universe.sh or
• $ sh ./hu.sh``` to reduce keystrokes.

Scaffold and boilerplate your environment with the --install or -ioption. Use:

• $ git clone https://github.com/codestripe/dotfiles ~/dotfiles
• cd ~/dotfiles
• sh ./hello-universe.sh --install or sh ./hello-universe.sh -i

To get the latest updates do a git pull and run ./hello-universe.sh with the --update or -u option:

• $ cd ~/dotfiles
• $ git pull
• $ sh ./hello-universe.sh --update or $ sh ./hello-universe.sh -u

Navigate to the location of your dotfiles, run the with the --delete or -d option, then delete the dotfiles folder:

• $ cd ~/dotfiles
• sh ./hello-universe --delete or sh ./hello-universe -d
• cd ~/
• rm -rf ~/dotfiles

I am more than comfortable to say that this set up should work on any RHEL based distribution. I currently run Fedora / Gnome. If you're using a Debian based Linux install, you may get away with replacing dnf for apt-get / apt / snap and pray nothing breaks, however, I can't make any guarantees.

Below is a detailed description of my optimized workflow for terminal and some rad tools thereof. I've been improving and updating this continuously, but didn't think to ever document what I prefer.

I do and I love it. Zsh is the best shell you could ever have hoped for. I run Fedora Linux so to get zsh installed and in my life:

$ sudo dnf install zsh

Oh My Zsh is configuration for Zsh on steroids. You can find out more about Oh My Zsh here, however, for the sake of consolidation, install it using curl:

$ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

If you have wget or prefer wget:

$ sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

I git and IDE with vi in terminal.

For the RHEL family of distributions install git and vim in terminal by running:

$ sudo dnf update && sudo dnf install git vim-enhanced -y

If you spend a fair bit of time using the terminal, it's best to make it as homely as possible.

Theming is also another very important part of the whole experience and I prefer doing as little as possible in this area. My goto's are Everforest for vim and vim-airline.

In zsh I use Oh My Zsh with the powerlevel10k theme which is pretty indeed. They recommend some font or the other - although I like the JetBrains Mono Nerd font more and use it instead. Get the detailed installation details here. For the sake of completeness once again - Here's the rundown if you've been following along:

git clone

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