Setting up your Mac

1. Update macOS to the latest version with the App Store
2. Install Xcode from the App Store, open it and accept the license agreement
3. Install macOS Command Line Tools by running xcode-select --install
4. Copy public and private SSH keys to ~/.ssh and make sure they're set to 600
5. Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles
6. Run install.sh to start the installation
7. Restart your computer to finalize the process

Your Mac is now ready to use!

Note: you can use a different location than ~/.dotfiles if you want. Just make sure you also update the reference in the .zshrc file.

Vim and Neovim Setup

Neovim is a fork and drop-in replacement for vim. in most cases, you would not notice a difference between the two, other than Neovim allows plugins to run asynchronously so that they do not freeze the editor, which is the main reason I have switched over to it. Vim and Neovim both use Vimscript and most plugins will work in both (all of the plugins I use do work in both Vim and Neovim). For this reason, they share the same configuration files in this setup. Neovim uses the XDG base directory specification which means it won't look for a .vimrc in your home directory. Instead, its configuration looks like the following:

	Vim	Neovim
Main Configuration File	~/.vimrc	~/.config/nvim/init.vim
Configuration directory	~/.vim	~/.config/nvim

VSCODE

Vscode does not work with automatic symlinking.

Commands to symlink settings:

ln -s /Users/christophvanhees/.dotfiles/VSCode/settings.json /Users/christophvanhees/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json

ln -s /Users/christophvanhees/.dotfiles/VSCode/keybindings.json /Users/christophvanhees/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json

ln -s /Users/christophvanhees/.dotfiles/VSCode/snippets/ /Users/christophvanhees/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User