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Manual Setup Record

Record how I setup this project on a new machine (macOS) step by step.

Install Chezmoi

brew install chezmoi age

Get LazyVim as our first settings

# Install Neovim
brew install neovim

# Install essential tools (ripgrep for search, fd for file finding, lazygit)
brew install ripgrep fd jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit

# https://github.com/LazyVim/starter
git clone https://github.com/LazyVim/starter ~/.config/nvim
rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/.git

Initialize Chezmoi with pre-created dotfiles repo (initialized with README.md with some notes)

chezmoi init
chezmoi cd
git remote add origin git@github.com:$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git
git pull origin main
# git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main

Add LazyVim configs

chezmoi add ~/.config/nvim
git add -A
git commit -m "Add initial nvim/lazyvim starter configs"

Add .chezmoiignore

EDITOR=nvim chezmoi edit

Add .chezmoi.toml.tmpl (.chezmoi.<format>.tmpl - chezmoi)

This will prompt user to setup when they call chezmoi init And will update the ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml file accordingly.

(or we can just use chezmoi edit-config to change the config without using chezmoi interactive prompts)

(After setup CLAUDE.md I mostly ask it to update, so please checkout .specstory/history/ instead)

The oh-my-zsh setup script sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" actually do more than what we need That install zsh & chsh stuff should be manage by Ansible; ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/ $ZSH_CUSTOM stuff should be managed by chezmoi (and put in different place so we can clone oh-my-zsh repo normally)

oh-my-zsh actually just initialize ~/.zshrc by the templates https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/templates/zshrc.zsh-template We better make it clean https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/templates/minimal.zshrc

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