💻 Workstation setup

Yay. You got new machine. Now you need to set it up. This includes setup scripts for Mac and Ubuntu.

Mac settings

• Keyboard -> Input Sources -> change language to CMD + Space
• Keyboard -> Spotlight - change to CMD + Shift + Space
• Keyboard -> Function keys -> Turn on "Use F1.. as function keys"
• Keyboard -> Mission control -> turn off Mission Control and Application windows, Show Desktop
  • change move left/right a space to use CMD instead of CTRL (so that tmux leader key would work fine)
• Mouse -> disable natural scrolling
• Keyboard -> Key Repeat -> Fast
• Keyboard -> Delay Until Repeat -> Short
• Keyboard -> Text Input -> Disable most things
• Keyboard -> Accessibility -> Disable VoiceOver

Apps

To install, run: ./install-ui-apps.sh

Others need manual installation:

• Goland
• Docker4Mac
• Postman
• OpenVPN
• RealVNC
• Discord
• Monocle to access k8s logs
• Microsoft TODO

Fonts

• Install Jetbrains Mono Nerdfont or original Jetbrains Mono
  • Update iTerm and IDEs to use it to see nice icons
  • Use ligatures

Git settings

git config --global user.name "Artjom Kurapov"
git config --global user.email "artkurapov@gmail.com"
git config --global pull.rebase false

# generate key for github
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "artkurapov@gmail.com"
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Installation

chmod +x install.sh
git clone git@github.com:tot-ra/workstation.git ~/git/workstation
~/git/workstation/install.sh
echo "source ~/git/workstation/mount.sh" >> ~/.zshrc

# link nvim and tmux configs to be linked to github repo
ln -s ~/git/workstation/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
ln -s ~/git/workstation/.config/nvim ~/.config/nvim

# now add this key to github --> https://github.com/settings/ssh/new

Manual steps after installation

• run tmux and run F1 I to install plugins
• run lazygit first time to activate
• run nvim and from cmd mode run (where you'll need to install plugins):

:Lazy
:LazyExtras
:Copilot auth
:Mason

Custom keyboard shortcuts

• F1 - tmux
• F12 - toggle fullscreen (wezterm)

TMux

Leader (F1) and:

• w - choose window

• * - clears history and terminal

• ? - show key bindings

• r - reload config

• I - install plugins

• : - command mode

• $ - rename session

• d - detach from session

• [ - enter copy mode

  • Space - start selection
  • Enter - copy selection
  • ] - paste selection

Sessions

• tmux ls - list sessions
• tmux new -s my-session - create session
• tmux a - attach to new session
• tmux a -t my-session - attach to session by name

Windows

• F1 + - create window
• F1 - - split window horizontally
• F1 | - split window vertically
• Ctrl Shift right - next window
• Ctrl Shift left - previous window
• , - rename window
• . - move window

Panes

• Ctrl arrows - moves between panes (including within nvim)
• " - split window to panes horizontally
• % - split window to panes vertically
• z - zoom pane (toggle)
• ! - move pane to own window
• o - switch session (interactive with plugin)

Neovim

• F3 - find string
• F4 - find file
• F11 - toggle DB UI
• Space is set as leader
  • gd - go to definition
  • e - toggle tree view
• Tab - accept completion
• Alt left/right - switch between tabs
• Alt up - close tab
• Alt down - pin tab
• Ctrl I - go to previous location
  • Ctrl O - go to next location

Movement

• s - jump to characters (flash plugin)
• gg - go to top of the file
  • G - go to end of the file
• 20G - go to line 20
• 5j - go up 5 lines
  • 5k - go down 5 lines
• w jump to next word
  • b jump back to previous word
• f - find character
  • ; next
• / - search
  • n - next hit
• f( - jump to next bracket

Code folding

• za - Toggle between closing and opening the fold under the cursor.
• zR - Open all folds in the current buffer.
• zM - Close all folds in the current buffer.

Commenting

• gcc - comment line

Replace

:%s/from/to/gc

Insert mode

• F2 - search/replace (nvim) with LSP
• I - switch to insert mode + go to beginning of the line
• A - switch to insert mode + go to end of the line
• i - switch to insert mode
• o - switch to insert mode + add new line after current one

Visual mode

• y - copy (yield)
• p - paste
• d - cut
• dd - delete line
• u - undo
• w - select word

Git

• Space gg - toggle lazygit