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# Cole's Dotfiles
Personal dotfiles for zsh, Neovim, and opencode, plus a few shell scripts. The setup is managed with [GNU `stow`](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/), a symlink manager that links the files in this repo to their corresponding locations under the home directory.
The zsh theme and plugins are installed manually rather than through a plugin manager. The `~/.zsh` directory is used to hold the git repos of any shell dependencies.
## Repository layout
```text
.
├── .zshrc # zsh config: PATH, history, completions, prompt, aliases
├── .config/
│ ├── nvim/ # Neovim config (init.lua, lua/, after/, queries/)
│ └── opencode/ # opencode config (agents, skills, plugins, rules)
└── .scripts/ # Standalone shell scripts (on $PATH)
└── hello.sh
```
Everything above is relative to the home directory, which is exactly what `stow .` expects.
## Prerequisites
### Required
- **GNU `stow`** — install with the system package manager (`brew install stow`, `apt install stow`, etc.).
- **A Nerd Font** — [install](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts) one and [configure](https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?tab=readme-ov-file#meslo-nerd-font-patched-for-powerlevel10k) it in the terminal, editor, and IDE of choice. Required for icons in the prompt and `lsd`.
### Shell theme and plugins
Clone into `~/.zsh/` so `.zshrc` picks them up automatically:
```sh
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/.zsh/powerlevel10k
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions
```
### Optional
- **`lsd`** — drives the `ls`/`ll`/`lt` aliases in `.zshrc`. Without it, the aliases fall back to the system `ls`. ([github.com/lsd-rs/lsd](https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd))
## Configure a new machine
1. Clone into the home directory:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/cole-maxwell1/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
```
2. Symlink the dotfiles into place with stow:
```sh
cd ~/dotfiles && stow .
```
3. Make the scripts executable:
```sh
chmod -R u+x ~/dotfiles/.scripts/
```
4. If this is the first run with Powerlevel10k, generate the prompt config:
```sh
p10k configure
```
5. Restart the shell (or `exec zsh`) to load the new config.
## Unlink or uninstall
To remove the symlinks without deleting the repo:
```sh
cd ~/dotfiles && stow -D .
```
Running `stow .` again re-creates them.
## Secrets
If `~/.secrets` exists, `.zshrc` sources it near the top of the file so environment variables (API keys, tokens, etc.) are exported into the shell. This file is intentionally **not** part of the repo — create it locally and keep it out of version control.