Setup your programming Environment on a new machine

Setting up Terminal

• Setting up colorscheme: Dark theme are cosidered to cause less eye strain.
• Use dracula with iTERM on mac and Dracula colorscheme with GNOME Terminal on Linux.
• Go to Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Select use option as meta keys
• Go to Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Delete shortcuts having (Alt + left arrow) and (Alt + Right arrow)
• Install source code pro font on Ubuntu.
• Set the font in terminal profiles as well.

Setup zshrc

• Most linux installations come with bash as the default shell. Many (including me), opine that zsh is better.

• Apple replaces bash with zsh

• Installation with sudo access sudo apt install zsh

• Installation without sudo sudo apt install zsh

  • Go to https://www.zsh.org/pub and download wget https://www.zsh.org/pub/zsh-5.7.1.tar.xz
  • tar -xzf zsh-5.7.1.tar.xz && rm zsh-5.7.1.tar.xz && cd zsh-5.7.1
  • mkdir ~/local && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local && make && make check && make install
  • echo "export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
  • echo "exec zsh" >> ~/.bashrc
  • Then restart the shell.
  • Refer How to install zsh, oh-my-zsh without sudo

• For plugin management install oh-my-zsh

  • With sudo: .. code-block:: bash

    sh -c “$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)”`

  • Without sudo: * First switch to zsh .. code-block:: bash

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh | sed -e ‘s/grep/zsh$/etc/shells/which zsh/g’ | zsh`

• Most useful plugins are git, fasd, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-completions, z

• Use spaceship theme

• Download the zshrc file ans place it in $HOME.

Setup Editor

• Nvim is available at https://github.com/neovim/neovim.git
• Installation:
  • With sudo access: sudo apt install neovim && sudo apt install python3-neovim (since ubuntu 18.04)
  • Without sudo: Download a pre-built image (currently, nvim-linux64.tar.gz)
  • Make sure that the path to desired nvim exists is $PATH
  • For Mac, brew install neovim also should work.
• Setup
  • Install vim-plug plugin manager from https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
  • Make sure that the following structure exists in your machine $HOME/.config/nvim/init.vim
  • Download Init Vim file and place it in the above described path.
  • pip install pynvim jedi
• Plugins
  • All plugins can be installed by running :PlugInstall in nvim
  • The Coc nvim plugin (available at https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim.git) requires more setup.
    • Install nodejs on your machine by downloading the binary from https://nodejs.org/en/download/
    • Install coc-python using :CocInstall coc-python
    • Set the desired python interpreter using :CocCommand python.setInterpreter. Do checkout other options by using :CocCommand
• Additionally install a terminal based editor micro
  • breq install micro
  • Download the required package from https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/releases
  • tar -xvf micro-1.2.1-60-linux64.tar.gz
  • Point the $PATH variable to include micro-1.x.x/micro
  • Execute micro command from terminal in a normal fashion.

Setup TMUX

• Install tmux locally by cloning the repo https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
  • cd <tmux_install_folder> && sh autogen.sh && ./configure && make
  • To install without sudo access, try export DESTDIR=<local_dir_path> make install
  • Other alternative is given here https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html
• Download Tmux config file and place it in $HOME.
• Read the config file for explanations regarding multple options.

Setup OneDrive

• Use Microsoft OneDrive storage to sync all your files across different machines
• Installation
  • In a local opt folder, git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive.git
  • make && export DESTDIR=$HOME/opt/onedrive/ make install
  • Make sure that $PATH points to this folder
  • Try onedrive -h for exploring various options.