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home configuration files (dotfiles) using home-manager and nix
https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config

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# Mogria's `.dotfiles`



These are [Home-Manager](https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/) based

configuration for my home directory files.



Home-Manager allows one to configure his own `$HOME` directory using the

[nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) language and the

[nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nix/) package collection.



These configuration files are in use on multiple 64-Linux Linux NixOS machine's

and on a recent MacBook.  Some minor modifications might be needed to make them

runnable on other architectures or with other distributions than NixOS

just using the Nix package manager.



# Environment and Tools Included



This collection of configuration files and script almost gives you a complete

"IDE"-like environment. At least, I use it as such. This environment is heavily

tuned toward how my own workflow works (keybindings and programs used and

such). So feel free to adjust these files to your wishes or take out little

bits and pieces here and there.



Here a little screenshot (to show off) of a busy screen when I'm running the

terminal IDE:



![Tmux + Neovim + Ranger + Alacritty + ZSH + Nix-Shell used for development](https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/master/screenshot.png)



## Programming: NeoVim



These configuration files contain a heavily customized neovim with a lot of

plugins for supporting programming. I usually start multiple instances of

neovim inside `tmux`. The `.zshrc` automatically starts a new tmux session.



Some of the plugins include:



* [Syntastic](https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic)

* [UltiSnips](https://github.com/sirver/UltiSnips) + Some of my own snippets

* Language Specific Plugins for languages and configuration for

  * PHP

  * Python

  * PgSQL

  * LaTeX

  * HTML, XHTML

  * Nix

* a lot of [tpope](https://github.com/tpope/)'s plugins

* Git integration is provided via [`vim-fugitive`](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) plugin.



## Interactive Shell Environment: tmux + zsh



This configuration includes a customized ZSH with powerline with a custom dark theme. It also contains integration with various tools.



### [direnv](https://github.com/direnv/direnv)



Allows you to set different environment variables and load different

configurations when entering a directory automatically if it contains a

`.envrc` configuration file. I use this in a lot of project root directories to

automatically spawn a [`nix-shell`]() when entering a directory which contains

all the development dependencies.



### [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)



A general fuzzy search program. Is used in diverse places:



* Can be called from vim to fuzzy **s**earch **f**iles using `sf`

  while in normal mode

  * You can then press `CTRL-X` or `CTRL-V` to automatically open a new

    `:split` or `:vsplit` window respectively.

  * More vim keybindings can be found in my

    [vimrc](https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/8ad8c3ac63112252327f23cdade00b421d05d4ec/vim/vimrc#L253).

    Feel free to adjust them to your needs.

* Can be called from zsh to fuzzy search files by typing `\`

* Can be called from zsh to fuzzy search the shell history by pressing

  `CTRL-R`. This one is very useful and gets more useful the bigger your

  shell history is. (The size of the history `$HISTSIZE` is configured to be

    100000).



### [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)



A fast recursive grep wit nice colored output. One of my most used shell

utilities during an interactive shell session. I even have a script

[`vrg`](https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/master/bin/vrg) pass to

start vim and pass the search results into the quickfix list

automatically.



It can be called from within vim as well to fill the quickfix list using

`F` to search for the word below the cursor. `f` searches for the

last thing you searched using `/` in vim, so you can expand your file scoped

search to the while project directory. Alternatively type `:Rg` to search for

something else. This functionality is provided by the

[vim-ripgrep](https://github.com/jremmen/vim-ripgrep) plugin.



### Git Integration



Various tools have been configured to work better with git.



* **zsh**: Various aliases

 * https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/8ad8c3ac63112252327f23cdade00b421d05d4ec/git/git.nix#L10-L28

* **vim**: Almost the same shortcuts prefixed with `` provided by the [`vim-fugitive`](https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive) plugin.

 * https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/8ad8c3ac63112252327f23cdade00b421d05d4ec/vim/vimrc#L320-#L330

 * Vim is used as the difftool as well



### Graphical



Different graphical tools are included as well but only on Linux. This includes



* [Rofi](https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/master/rofi/rofi.nix): A little menu I use to start programs and search for windows of currently opened windows. Only used on Linux in conjuction with the NixOS's XFCE 4.14a (needs to be activated in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix).

* [Alacritty terminal emulator](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty): cross-platform GPU-accelerated terminal emulator



## Installation



* [Install Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) or even [NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/)

* Clone this repository into `~/.config/home-manager`



      git clone https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config.git ~/.config/home-manager



* Symlink the used nixpkgs configuration from this repo into ~/.config/nixpkgs



      mkdir ~/.config/nixpkgs

      ln -s ~/.config/home-manager/config.nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix



* Configure your git settings and github repositories in [`user-config.nix`](https://github.com/mogria/nixpkgs-config/blob/master/user-config.nix)

* Install Home-Manager: [https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager](https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager#installation)



      nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/master.tar.gz home-manager

      nix-channel --update

      nix-shell '' -A install