My personal configurations for various tools.
I use a bleeding-edge terminal with a 16 color palette. The colors were
inspired by Solarized, but they've taken quite a big change of direction away
from it these days. The palette is generated with colors.py
using parameters from colors.yml; there's more details about
the algorithm inside the Python script. The light mode palette doesn't look
great because I don't use it often and tend not to optimize it.
Most of the interesting configuration here is for vim, tmux, and zsh.
Because I use tmux so heavily in my workflow, there is a zsh function t()
that simplifies the process of creating new sessions and attaching to them.
Simply typing t foo will create a new tmux session named foo if it doesn't
exist, or attach to an existing foo session.
I have several custom tmux bindings that use alt chords instead of a prefix chain. Briefly:
- alt+\ splits the pane vertically
- alt+- splits the pane horizontally
- alt+hjkl switch between panes
- alt+mn switch between windows
- alt+, creates a new window
- alt+d detaches from the session
- alt+s switches sessions
- alt+backspace switches pane layouts
- alt+z toggles zoom on the current pane
- alt+w toggles pane synchronization
- alt+; enters the tmux command prompt
- alt+c enters copy-mode; y will copy selection
- alt+p pastes a copied selection
I use vim for editing all text. I have a relatively minimal plugin setup that mostly consists of syntax files.
I have several custom vim bindings that are explained in my vimrc, but the ones that I seem to miss the most when working on non-configured systems are ctrl+hjkl to switch between splits, ctrl+mn to move between buffers, and ctrl+d to suspend. These mirror the corresponding alt bindings for tmux.