Neovim

This page is the front door to my dotfiles. It is written for one reader first: me, the next time I am sitting in front of a machine that does not know me yet. If you are someone else, welcome — take whatever is useful. Everything I care about in a terminal is in that repo: zsh with Powerlevel10k, tmux on a Ctrl+a prefix, Neovim through LazyVim, Ghostty in Catppuccin Mocha, lazygit, a git config that signs every commit, and the settings for the AI agents I work with every day, including a Claude Code status line that gets the bill right. None of it is copied into place. It is linked, so the repo stays the only copy, and a change on one machine is a git pull away from every other. ...

Neovim is Vim with the parts that aged badly replaced: Lua instead of Vimscript, a language server client built in, and syntax trees instead of regular expressions. It is still the editor that opens in a terminal in a tenth of a second and does not need a mouse. This is how I set it up on a new machine. I rewrote it the week I set up a new Mac, following it step by step. Every command has a Copy button, and the ones marked Run type themselves into this site’s terminal, so you can see what they do first. At the end there is a checklist that remembers where you got to. ...