dotfiles

My configuration. Mostly used on OSX.

Editor setup

Most of my work happens in Emacs. Config for programming languages, and org-mode stuff lives in emacs.d/. I don't use vim so much these days and have a minimal config, in vim/.

Nix

As much as possible, I like to install software with nix.

I configure a global environment, devEnv, defined in nix/nixpkgs/config.nix. The simple script scripts/build-nix-env attempts to build and install this.

nixpkgs/default.nix is just a pointer to a pinned version of nixpkgs, defined at nix/sources.json. This can be updated by running niv update nixpkgs in the project root.

Other stuff

There are some random projects in src/, and random notes in notes/.

Installing

Check out

git clone https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles.git

And then:

make install

sets up the symlinks.

Nix setup

Follow the instructions here: https://nixos.org/download.html

On newer Mac OSes, you might need to tweak this to be able to get a /nix directory. Check installation instructions here:

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sect-macos-installation

I used the recommended approach:

curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh -s -- --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume

One last step is to remove whatever channel was set up with in the installation. I run:

# you may also need to do this using `sudo` for root channels
nix-channel --list # note the channels listed
nix-channel --remove <channel> # whatever channels were listed

Finally, a symlink should be set up in ~/.nix-defexpr like so:

~/.nix-defexpr/nixpkgs -> {dotfiles repo}/nixpkgs

If everything is properly set up, nix should use the nixpkgs pinned at nixpkgs/default.nix.

License

MIT. See included LICENSE file.