dotfiles/README.md

my conf files

Using dotbot its awesome.

I'm using a fork (of a fork of a fork) of instant-markdown-d which uses KaTeX for maths (and has the upstream up to date):

npm install -g git+https://github.com/bixel/instant-markdown-d.git

There are some other tweaks for macOS, I do not want to miss:

Enabling and setting key-repeat and initial key-repeat rates via

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10

The changes take effect after a logout. Warning If you want to present a slideshow with these settings enabled, you'll have a nightmate using most presenters.

Remap ESC and CAPSLOCK keys

sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow || sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook $PWD/osx_startup_script.sh && sudo ./osx_startup_script.sh

Apple M1 and python quirks

Currently, adding this to the .zsh_local for x86 vs arm64 workarounds

if [ "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64" ]; then
    export X86_SLUG="86"
fi

export PATH="/opt/homebrew$X86_SLUG/bin:/opt/homebrew$X86_SLUG/sbin:$PATH"
export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv$X86_SLUG"
export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init --path)"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"
eval "$(jenv init -)"

I've added a prompt segment to indicate if I'm currently in a rosetta shell.

Oddities

To properly activate autocompletion, I need to run

rm ~/.zcompdump
compinit

Weirdly, this reported "compinit: insecure directories". After a few tries, it "just worked"... If this is not the case, this github issue might help.

Power settings on my old-ish MBP

These should be fine, as per man pmset

sudo pmset -b hibernatemode 25 standbydelaylow 600 standbydelayhigh 1200

Storing secrets and stuff in keychain

Thanks to some medium article

security add-generic-password -a "$USER" -s 'name_of_your_key' -w 'passphrase'

and

security find-generic-password -a "$USER" -s 'name_of_your_key' -w