We add an additional 'core' user service (i.e. one that gets loaded
before all others by turnstile) which populates the TURNSTILE_ENV_DIR
with all manner of custom set env vars that are important for other
applications.
Most importantly, this sets up the XDG directory compliance for
applications either managed by turnstile or applications started through
turnstile on my system. So, for example `pass` knows to search for its
database in `XDG_DATA_HOME` and river knows to search for binaries in a
PATH which has been prefixed with my custom user binary location.
Remove most of the old cruft that was left over from nushell version
0.87 - we are now on version 0.102!
Many of the old options are actually not helpful anymore so let's just
get rid of them entirely (never configured the shell for me too much).
Also there was a lot of 'default' commented code which made it harder to
keep an overview rather than help.
For now just set up a minimal shell experience with vi editing mode, and
the trifecta of startship prompt, zoxide movement and atuin history
enabled.
While there are errors that pop up when inserting text (_each time_), it
is still much preferable to the unbearable slowdowns that happen after a
while when running it in XWayland mode.
We load the 'run-help' function to quickly show us documentation for the
command under cursor when we enter vi mode and then hit 'K'.
This mimics the actual vim setup where K will generally show
documentation/hover info/help as well.
The command invocation requires an 'even amount of arguments' which I
don't fully understand but have no time to read into and fix currently,
so it just gets another superfluous 'run-help' tacked on at the end.
Since wezterm on wayland is an older release (does not track nightlies,
so currently last release is 2024023, a year old) it does not work as
well with wayland as I would hope.
There are two major issues:
- Cursor errors whenever a mouse pointer is above the window (can be
partly fixed with the xcursor_theme option, though still erroring when
hovering over links).
- Constant errors that inactive text input is sending updates in river
logs.
Until those are fixed, or I jump to a nightly version, we keep it
xwayland.
By default we use the 'zr' plugin manager for zsh. It is quick and
painless and takes managing the plugins across two environments not our
problem anymore.
Prefer regular 'Iosevka' font in most cases, not the highly specific
'Iosevka Nerd Font'. This may break some things back in Archlinux-land
but it is required for iosevka to be correctly displayed in Voidlinux,
and, to be honest, also feels more clean than using such a highly
specialized font for everything.
Additionally, we generally make use of both where possible, defaulting
to the more specific 'Nerd Font' family variant but falling back to
regular old Iosevka.
One exception is 'wezterm' which, though it nicely includes a font
fallback option (and a very configurable one at that), _always_ produces
a warning when the first font in a fallback list is not found -- even
when the specific 'warn_about_missing_glyphs' option is ticked. No clue
why but for now this works well enough for me.
For some reason (glow 2.0.0 release?) markdown preview with glow does
_not_ work anymore within my vifm. It regresses to showing errors all
over the place instead.
Only create shortcuts for external commands if those have associated
executables on the system. If we don't have an `atool` installed, it
does not make sense to have shortcuts for invoking it - likewise for
vidir, find, and so on.
edir is a slightly improved version of the morutils tool 'vidir'. We
switch to it to change directories, files and only sub-directories
(Invoked with ,rr / ,rf / ,rd respectively).
While I never disliked tmux I have not been using it for absolute ages
now, ever since starting to multiplex with wezterm. Wezterm can (at
least with my current setup) *not* replace all tmux functionality -
especially running multiple sessions in a detachable way on a remote
server - but I have never needed those in a long time now.
Detachable sessions I can create instead with `abduco`.
If zoxide is found on the system, vifm will automatically add any paths
traversed into the zoxide database.
It will also have a new internal command 'zoxide' with which you can
open a menu to search all zoxide-known paths - it is also added as a
mapping to <space>z.
This is something I used to use quite a bit in tmux. I have a feeling I
will not be making extensive use of it in wezterm, but can always remove
it if I reach the point of forgetting the mapping later.
Added mapping `<leader><c-q>` to select a pane which will be moved out
to a new tab.
Slightly changed pane switching on `<leader><s-q>` to keep focus on the
pane instead of switching to the other pane.
Finally, added two simple relative tab movement maps to cycle forward
with `<leader>.` and reverse with `<leader>,`. This replaces the old tab
movement (moving the actual tab around) left and right which are now on
`<leader><s-,>` and `<ledaer><s-.>` respectively.
These bindings ensure that wezterm understands (and informs the shell)
that `<C-Return>` and `<S-Return>` are different key binds than just
`<Return>` on its own.
For example 'euporie' uses it to mimic the python notebook 'enter means
newline but ctrl-enter means execute' style of quick coding.
Since I (almost) never use the navigator, it has been put behind
`<leader>T`. The tab-hiding I used a (little) more often so that now
lies behind `<leader>t`. Simple change.
The newly added `:cmp` command can compare the contents of either two
files or two directories.
Works in two ways: If nothing is selected, compares the currently
hovered-over object with that in the other pane.
If things are selected, compares those instead.
Tabular data was only opened in visidata if it was a csv file,
now we also correctly open xlsx, tsv, and even json files.
Also do not display an extra file title in the tabular previewer
since we already know which file we are pointing at to gain some
space.
Tab display can be toggled on or off with `Ctrl+Shift+T`. The toggling
takes place per-window and not globally, so we can have a wezterm
terminal on desktop 1 with a tabbar and on desktop 2 without. Opening
a new terminal always defaults to an enabled tab bar.
Added atuin for nice shell history. Trying it out for now
but seems non-intrusive enough that I will probably keep
it for a while even if I don't use it.
Switched terminal environments (bash,zsh,nushell) to starship
prompt (from pure-prompt/no prompt). Is mimicking the pure-
prompt however, so no big change visible. Needs additional
package on the system, which is added to the packages.
Some remaining issues with nushell (vi prompt indicator).
Added cycling through (command mode) options with C-p/C-n since
I am used to doing this.
Added a quick short mapping to `o` to show all file openers
defined for the current file and be able to select one.
Extended functionality to work in current directory with lower-case
letters and from home directory using upper-case. So, <leader>f
will search files in current dir, <leader>F in home dir.
Same for <leader>d/D and <leader>w/W.
HACK Also made it use fd instead of find by default for the speedup.
This should probably only be done after detecting if fd is even installed
on the system but I do not have time for this right now.
Removed the compatibility options set by default in vifm, which has 2 large
effects:
Will remove the default tab mapping to switch panes. I re-enabled it
for now since it has become somewhat part of my muscle memory but I believe
it is better to have it as an explicit mapping which I can change than
hunting for this option somewhere down the road.
Second, it makes dd/DD/yy behave very differently, *only* working on the
currently highlighted file. To operate on the currently selected files
like previously one uses ds/Ds/ys instead. I want to re-train my muscle
memory for this instead since it will make my usage more flexible in the
future. There is also dS/DS/yS for operating on non-selected files instead
which is even more flexible.
Aside from some more needed things, the path deduplication function is
the most time-consuming invocation on zsh startup, taking almost
100ms on my system.
Perhaps it would be reasonable to re-introduce when the first invocation
from path is occurring but it is simply too much time taken for each
time I start a new shell instance for now.
Will be sourced on startup and provide basically the same icon prefix
as before. Made sure to not invoke 'classify+=' too often since each
invocation slows down vifm startup a little.
(see: https://github.com/vifm/vifm/issues/542)
With it being sourced externally we can now do fun things with classify
itself and it is easier to update from the rest of our settings.
Simple wrapper for xdg-open functionality. Simply refers
to xdg-open except if there exists mimeo on the system
which it will refer to instead.
So, a simple preference modificator for mimeo over
xdg-open since that is my preference too.
Also gave it a short name so I can do open whenever I
want and don't have to tax my left hand with tying xdg.
We now use chafa to preview images. We use its iterm mode
since that seems to be the best integrated into wezterm
currently.
We have to use uncached previews so it is a little slower,
but at least it functions perfectly after the first image
is displayed.
For anything markdown or that gets displayed as markdown
(e.g. docx files) in the vifm preview, we now use glow
or bat to display a nicely styled and colored version.
For glow I added a script which tries to detect the
current terminal background between dark/light to
correctly set the color scheme.
Replaced or extended all default references to zathura with
sioyek so it will automatically take on any tasks meant
for pdf reading. With the current configuration, hardly a
change should be noticed.
fasd is unmaintained and slower than zoxide. The transferral
was painless. I imported my old database and can continue as
before. It does not care about files but that is completely
fine for me. Same `z` invocation as before. Has the
'interactive' mode on `zi` which is also completely fine.
