Dotfiles

My dotfiles. Mostly concerned with making zsh and tmux pretty and useable, might also touch a few other things. These are obviously changed by me at my whims so I would recommend forking rather than cloning if you're not me.

A quick summary:

• .zshrc autostarts tmux when I open a terminal session, and .profile sets my env vars and aliases
• oh-my-zsh, for making zsh more fun and interesting, with a few of its builtin plugins enabled as well as a few custom ones
• bira-custom, derivative of Bira's theme for oh-my-zsh, adds a few features such as changing colour to indicate connection over SSH, and doing its best to shorten the current dir if it would cause the prompt to wrap.
• custom .nanorc that mostly just turns all of the cool features on, enables syntax highlighting, and makes a few keybinds more intuitive
• Where do I even start with tmux... Honestly, I do so much to it and it changes so regularly that it's probably easier for you to just go through my .tmux.conf yourself. but tl;dr, I've:
  • Made a lot of the keys more intuitive
  • Recoloured everything
  • Turned on some features that are disabled by default, like mouse mode
  • Completely riced the status bar with a CPU and RAM readout and a little indicator for when you've just pressed ^A
  • Set it up to work with the system clipboard 'proprely' in copy mode
  • Fixed scrolling in less/man (you can add any other applications you need to to the list!)
• .XCompose just adds some Greek symbols to my compose key: α, β, γ, π, θ, Ω, ω, all useful for math and engineering.

If you plan on using my dotfiles I'd highly recommend ripping them to pieces and using the pieces you find most relevant to you. Better learning curve that way.

Rice Resources

Below you'll find some resources I've compiled for further reading. Both for myself if I need to reference documentation and for anyone else who might need some guidance.

tmux

• The most comprehensive document by far for learning tmux is its manpage. Finding really good information online about it is honestly kinda hard; it's usually easier to just browse through man until you find what you're looking for
• For installing plugins to tmux, tpm is by far the most used resource.
• Very basic cheatsheet
• Look into: wemux

Hacky Shared Screens

script -f /path/to/some/file # Writes terminal to file
tail -f /path/to/some/file # Reads terminal from file

Combine the two to get 'shared' screens on tmux where only one person can read/write

nano

• nano-editor.org contains all there really is to know about nano's customization options.
• Cheatsheet

zsh

• oh-my-zsh is really great for making zsh much more functional, installing plugins, themes, etc etc etc. See my .zshrc for how to initialise it and .zsh_install_plugins.sh if you'd like to have it installed systemwide sometimes rather than in your homedir. However, it'll do a good job at helping you setup.
• oh-my-zsh themes
• man zshmisc contains a lot of information for setting up custom prompts if you really want to get into that.

Terminal Colours

Color	Foreground	Background
Black	\033[30m	\033[40m
Red	\033[31m	\033[41m
Green	\033[32m	\033[42m
Orange	\033[33m	\033[43m
Blue	\033[34m	\033[44m
Magenta	\033[35m	\033[45m
Cyan	\033[36m	\033[46m
Light gray	\033[37m	\033[47m
Fallback to distro's default	\033[39m	\033[49m
Dark gray		\033[100m
Light red		\033[101m
Light green		\033[102m
Yellow		\033[103m
Light blue		\033[104m
Light purple		\033[105m
Teal		\033[106m
White		\033[107m