Erick's dotfiles

iTerm

vim

tig

Installation

Homebrew

Install homebrew and run brew bundle:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew bundle

Shell

Create ssh key:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "erick.yellott@gmail.com"
echo "AddKeysToAgent yes" >> ~/.ssh/config
echo "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519" >> ~/.ssh/config
ssh-add

Add the key to GitHub: https://github.com/settings/keys

Make Code directory:

mkdir -p ~/Code

Clone this repo:

cd ~/Code
git clone git@github.com:erickyellott/dotfiles.git

Link gitconfigs:

ln -s "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/gitconfig" "$HOME/.gitconfig"
ln -s "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/gitignore" "$HOME/.gitignore"

Silence last login terminal message:

touch ~/.hushlogin

Fish

Fish is installed by brew bundle. Make it the login shell:

echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

Link the config, prompt, and theme:

mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/conf.d ~/.config/fish/functions
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/fish/config.fish" "$HOME/.config/fish/config.fish"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/fish/conf.d/fish_frozen_theme.fish" \
  "$HOME/.config/fish/conf.d/fish_frozen_theme.fish"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish" \
  "$HOME/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/fish/functions/fish_right_prompt.fish" \
  "$HOME/.config/fish/functions/fish_right_prompt.fish"

config.fish runs eval (/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv) — on Apple Silicon Homebrew lives in /opt/homebrew, which is not on the default PATH.

~/.config/fish/fish_variables is not tracked; fish rewrites it whenever a universal variable changes. Anything worth keeping goes in config.fish instead — a global there shadows a universal of the same name.

Atuin

Atuin replaces shell history with a searchable SQLite database. It is installed by brew bundle.

Link the config and the fish integration:

mkdir -p ~/.config/atuin ~/.config/fish/conf.d
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/atuin/config.toml" "$HOME/.config/atuin/config.toml"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/fish/conf.d/atuin.fish" \
  "$HOME/.config/fish/conf.d/atuin.fish"

Import existing shell history once, then open a new shell:

atuin import auto

The init runs with --disable-up-arrow, so Ctrl+R opens atuin's search and the up arrow keeps fish's native prefix search. The init also binds bare ? to atuin's AI search.

enter_accept = true means Enter in the search UI runs the command immediately; Tab puts it on the prompt to edit instead.

The history database in ~/.local/share/atuin is not tracked — it is machine state, and key in that directory is the sync encryption key. Back that key up somewhere private if you ever enable sync; without it, synced history cannot be decrypted on another machine.

Claude

Link the global instructions and the Tomorrow Night Bright theme:

mkdir -p "$HOME/.claude/themes"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/claude/CLAUDE.md" "$HOME/.claude/CLAUDE.md"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/claude/tomorrow-night-bright.json" \
  "$HOME/.claude/themes/tomorrow-night-bright.json"

Then pick the theme with /config, or set it directly in ~/.claude/settings.json:

{ "theme": "custom:tomorrow-night-bright" }

Link the status line script (shows model, directory, context usage, and either 5h/7d rate-limit quota on a subscription or session cost on an API key):

ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/claude/statusline-command.sh" \
  "$HOME/.claude/statusline-command.sh"

Then point to it in ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "bash ~/.claude/statusline-command.sh"
  }
}

settings.json itself is not symlinked — it holds machine-specific hooks and plugin state.

Neovim

neovim, neovide-app, gopls, and tree-sitter-cli are installed by brew bundle.

Link the config, the lockfile, the fallback theme, and Neovide's font settings:

mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/nvim/colors" "$HOME/.config/neovide"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/nvim/init.lua" "$HOME/.config/nvim/init.lua"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/nvim/lazy-lock.json" \
  "$HOME/.config/nvim/lazy-lock.json"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/nvim/colors/Tomorrow-Night-Bright.vim" \
  "$HOME/.config/nvim/colors/Tomorrow-Night-Bright.vim"
ln -sf "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/neovide/config.toml" \
  "$HOME/.config/neovide/config.toml"

Plugins install on first launch. Then build the treesitter parsers:

nvim --headless -c 'lua require("nvim-treesitter").install({"go","gomod","gosum","gotmpl","lua","vim","vimdoc","query","bash","json","yaml","toml","markdown","markdown_inline","hcl","terraform","dockerfile","typescript","tsx","javascript","css","html","python","sql","diff","gitcommit"}):wait(600000)' -c 'qa'

Font size is set in neovide/config.toml and read at startup, so changing it needs a full quit. To tune it live, :set guifont=Monaco:h11.

Ghostty

Link the config:

mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/ghostty"
ln -sfn "$HOME/Code/dotfiles/ghostty/config" "$HOME/.config/ghostty/config"

Ghostty loads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ghostty/config (defaulting to ~/.config) and then ~/Library/Application Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/config, merging both — the Application Support file does not replace the XDG one, it overrides only the keys it sets. Keep that directory empty so this config is the whole story; a stray file there wins silently and is easy to forget about.

Ghostty writes a template config to Application Support on first launch only when it finds no config anywhere, so the symlink above prevents it reappearing.

Cmd+Shift+, reloads the config, but some options — macos-titlebar-style among them — only apply to new windows, so a full restart is sometimes needed.

iTerm

Open "Tomorrow Night Bright.itermcolors"

Tell iTerm to load your preferences from iCloud.

Alfred

Tell alfred to load your preferences from iCloud.

Disable macos screenshot thumbnails

defaults write com.apple.screencapture show-thumbnail -bool NO
killall SystemUIServer