# Dotfiles

My personal dotfiles for Sway/River on Arch Linux. They are designed to be used
with [[https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/][gnu stow]]. Each directory is a kind
of 'module' that can be individually symlinked.

You are welcome to do whatever you would like with these configs (they are
licensed under the 0 clause BSD license); be inspired by them, copy them,
whatever, no attribution necessary. I would encourage you to fork this repo,
then use `stow` to install whatever modules you would like, changing whatever
you want as you go. For example, if you want to steal my neovim configuration,
you could run `stow nvim`, assuming this repo is located in your home
directory.

# Some Software I run

## Shell
I use [[https://fishshell.com/][fish]] together with
[[https://starship.rs][starship]]. It's basic, but gets the job done.

## Editors

### Neovim
I love [[https://neovim.io][neovim]]. I have two different neovim
configurations, (`nvim` and `nvim-vimscript`). `nvim` is a ~500 LOC lua
monstrosity that works wonderfully but is a bit of a pain to maintain. If you
are new to neovim, I would recommend borrowing more from `nvim-vimscript` which
is a ~100 LOC vimscript config that is much simpler and does 95% of what the
other config does.

### Emacs
I love [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][emacs]] as well. My configuration
is a literate `org` file that gets tangled into `init.el`. As far as Emacs
configurations go, it's pretty clean, but still is a several hundred line mess.

## Compositors
I'm on Wayland now, and use either [[https://swaywm.org/][sway]] or
[[https://codeberg.org/river/river][river]] depending on how I'm feeling, and
have configurations for both. I generally use
[[https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar][waybar]] for sway and
[[https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar][yambar]] for river for no particular
reason. All the other configs (swaylock, fuzzel, etc.) are compositor agnostic.
Note, in both my sway and river configs I swap meta and left-alt. That's just a
habit from starting on [[https://dwm.suckless.org/][dwm]], whose default mod
key is alt. You may want to change that.

## Keyd
Since I use vim and emacs, I like to map caps lock to act as control when held
and escape when tapped. I use a simple [[https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd][keyd]]
config for this. However, note that `keyd/default.conf` should be copied to
`/etc/keyd/` and the `keyd` service should be enabled and started. If `keyd`
isn't in your distro's repos, it is very easy to build and install from source.
Otherwise, [[https://gitlab.com/interception/linux/plugins/caps2esc][caps2esc]]
probably is and is likewise pretty simple to get set up.