These are my dotfiles. They are here in order to make it easy for me to keep my Linux configuration consistent across machines.

Note on .bash_profile

My .bash_profile is where the path manipulation and machine-specific stuff goes. Some of the variables it exports are assumed to exist by other pieces of software, but I am not tracking the file here because it wouldn't make sense. However, so that I can get properly installed on new machines, here are the environment variables that need to be exported:

• TRASHDIR: where to put deleted files after toss.
• DEVDIR: where all coding stuff goes. Usually ~/dev.
• REPODIR: where github repos are stored. Usually ~/dev/github.
• SCRATCHDIR: where misc coding files and 'scratch-work' is done. Usually ~/dev/scratch.
• NOTESDIR: where notes go. Usually ~/notes.

Software to install

In addition to these config files, the critical pieces of software I use are:

• git
• tmux
• vim (should be pre-installed on most systems)

Programming languages and tools

Not including stuff that should be pre-installed like make.

• awscli: mandatory if you work with AWS
• gcc & g++ (& mingw if you work with Windows)
• ghc & haskell-platform
• hindent: Haskell prettier
• nodejs & yarn
• perl
• python3
• racket
• sqlite3
• valgrind

Some other random cool software to have

These are just nice GNU things, generally.

• ffmpeg: if you do anything with sound
• imagemagick: I deeply love this software
• jing: xml validation
• pandoc: highly recommended, especially for LaTeXers and webdevs.
• rclone & rsync: critical for cloud computing
• unzip & gzip & p7zip-full
• xsltproc: for testing xslt templates
• ripgrep: better than grep for searching for text in codebases
• fzf: fuzzy finder, great for finding files
• fd: better than find

Vim details

My vim configuration, in addition to my .vimrc, involves several lightweight packages and some slight tinkering in the after/ directory. Here are what I use:

• after/syntax/
  • scheme.vim: a simple addition to Scheme syntax highlighting for to add λ and nil as keywords.

    syn keyword schemeSyntax λ
    syn keyword schemeSyntax nil

    The Unicode character λ is \u03bb.
• pack/dist/start/
  • gruvbox
    • I have altered the Haskell colors in Gruvbox directly. These are my personal choices. The Haskell portion of the gruvbox.vim is available in this repo.
  • haskell-vim
  • lhaskell-vim (literate Haskell)
  • typescript-vim
  • rainbow (rainbow syntax highlighting for parentheses and brackets; I couldn't get it to work)
  • vim-airline
  • vim-airline-themes
  • vim-closetag
  • vim-jsx-typescript (React syntax highlighting)
  • vim-solidity
  • coc.nvim
    • installation guide
    • :CocInstall coc-solidity
    • :CocInstall coc-jedi
  • vim-slime

These are all fairly self-explanatory.

htop

I do have htop configurations but I figure it's not important or complex enough to warrant including here. Also it's not a very stable configuration file.

A note on colors

My terminal and vim colors are terribly hacked together. I got them to a nice stable situation that pleases my eye, but there is little chance this will work at all, let alone look good, on anything but a Windows 10 computer running Windows Subsystem for Linux through Windows Terminal. As you can see in my configuration, I'm using Gruvbox themes for vim and Windows Terminal but it's pretty janky.