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MacOS Laptop Setup

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Warning: This repository is deprecated. See my dotfiles repo instead.

macos laptop setup

A repo to host config files and notes about the setup of my Mac Pro laptop at Shopify

• Configure the laptop for the Shopify environment as per the documentation

• Install oh-my-zsh:

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Install dev:

  eval "$(curl -sS https://up.dev)"

  dev installs homebrew, no need to install it manually.

• Install gcloud SDK, including the cloudplatform repo and setup scripts:

  dev clone cloudplatform
  dev up

• Clone this repository

Homebrew packages

The following are packages I installed explicitly using homebrew:

Package	Comment
bat	A supercharged cat
emacs	The real text editor (see section below)
exa	Alternative to ls
fd	Fast alternative to find
gh	The GitHub CLI
git	The latest git (apple's is outdated)
glow	Render markdown on the CLI
htop	Interactive process viewer
jump	Quick dir navigator
k9s	A terminal-based UI to interact with Kubernetes (1)
kind	A tool for running local Kubernetes clusters
kitty	A lightweight terminal emulator
krew	The plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool
kubectx	kubectl context/namespace switch tool
lazygit	A simple terminal UI for git commands (2)
lua	An embeddable scripting language
micro	Because I don't like vi! (3)
most	Fancy pager
nmap	A utility for network discovery and security auditing
nnn	A terminal file manager (4)
rg	A replacement for grep
rustup	The rust compiler and tools (5)
tmux	The terminal multiplexer

(1) install with brew install derailed/k9s/k9s

(2) install with brew install jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit

(3) install the Go plugin with micro -plugin install go

(4) install plugins with curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/nnn/master/plugins/getplugs | sh

(5) run rustup-init to install the compiler. Verify with rustc --version

• Run the following command to install the packages:

  brew install bat exa fd gh git glow htop jump kind kitty krew kubectxlua \
  micro most nmap nnn unzip rg rustup tmux 
  

• Change dir to this repo's clone and run the script ./config.sh to set up all the required config files

• Log out from all terminals and open a new one (try kitty!)

Installing Emacs

Install Emacs using homebrew for use on the terminal only.

brew install emacs
brew link emacs

Install Emacs Prelude which provides a sensible and well documented setup on top of a default Emacs installation. Make sure you do not have any ~/.emacs file or ~/.emacs.d folder present to start with.

mkdir ~/src/github.com/bbatsov
git clone git://github.com/bbatsov/prelude.git ~/src/github.com/bbatsov/prelude
ln -s ~/src/github.com/bbatsov/prelude ~/.emacs.d
cd ~/emacs.d
cp sample/prelude-modules.el personal

You can then customize the personal directory as you wish and update prelude by running git pull.

Alternatively, you can keep the personal folder in this repo under version control, and soft-link it to your ~.emacs.d folder:

cd ~/emacs.d
git checkout -b pirivan
rm -rf personal
ln -s <this-repo-dir>/.emacs.d/personal ~/.emacs.d

The Emacs Daemon

I run Emacs as a daemon and use emasclient as the editor for faster startup times. To run Emacs as a daemon upon login:

ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs/27.2/homebrew.mxcl.emacs.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.emacs.plist

I defined the ec alias in .zshrc to start the client in a terminal window.

Note: Changes to the configuration won't take effect unless you restart the Emacs daemon:

emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'

MacOS restarts the daemon automatically.