These are my dotfiles.

Primary terminal stack: Ghostty + fish + zellij. Fish is the first-class interactive shell; all interactive config lives under home/.config/fish/. The rc.common / rc.bash / rc.zsh files exist for POSIX/bash compatibility but are secondary.

Both tools are configured to behave well inside git repos where .gitignore is often overly restrictive (generated configs, editor files, etc.).

Excluded dirs: node_modules, dist, .git, target, __pycache__, .cache

Why --no-ignore-vcs? Inside a repo, generated configs, editor files, and local build artifacts are often gitignored. Without this flag both tools silently skip them, making searches feel broken. The explicit excludes above cover the dirs you almost never want.

• home/.config/fish/conf.d/search.fish — sets RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH and the fd alias.
• home/.config/rg/config — ripgrep flags, loaded automatically via RIPGREP_CONFIG_PATH.

# Nuclear: respect nothing, search everything
fd --no-ignore --no-ignore-vcs <pattern>
rg --no-ignore --no-ignore-vcs <pattern>

# Add back a single ignore file (e.g. a local .ignore)
fd --ignore-file .ignore <pattern>

# One-off: also search node_modules
fd --no-ignore-vcs <pattern>   # removes the alias excludes automatically

fd alias flags are baked into the function; to skip the alias entirely use command fd <args>.

Edit both files together so they stay in sync:

1. home/.config/fish/conf.d/search.fish — add --exclude <dir> to the alias.
2. home/.config/rg/config — add --glob=!<dir>.