Taylor Buchanan's dotfiles

A dotfiles configuration using chezmoi.

Features

• A mostly consistent cross-platform terminal emulator using Wezterm

  • Android uses Termux, for reasons

• A mostly consistent cross-platform terminal multiplexer using tmux and psmux (Windows)

  • Android and non-GUI Linux use tmux directly

• A consistent nerd font, Caskaydia Cove

• A consistent cross-shell prompt using Starship

• A mostly consistent cross-shell Vi mode using ble.sh and PSReadLine

  • PSReadLine lacks many Vi mode features, but you can edit the current command externally

• Bash autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more with ble.sh

• Latest vanilla Vim with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, LSP support, and more

• Native cross-platform SSH agent configurations

  • macOS uses Keychain to persist restarts

• Consistent cross-tool AI agent preferences and skills

  • Claude Code
  • Codex CLI
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • VS Code Copilot

• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) support

  • SSH agent forwarding to host

  • Git GPG forwarding to host (no global forwarding yet)

  • Shellception: win pwsh -> wsl bash -> wsl pwsh

Limitations

• Only Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms are supported

  • I don't use iOS, and it's too limited for terminal emulation (AFAIK)

  • Linux support only tested on Ubuntu WSL (for now)

• Only Bash and PowerShell (pwsh.exe) shells are supported

  • Bash is available almost everywhere, and ble.sh makes it just as good as other shells

  • CMD and Windows PowerShell are effectively in maintenance mode. Long live PowerShell!

  • On macOS, ZSH is replaced by the latest Bash for consistency

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Chezmoi
  • Windows: winget install -e --id twpayne.chezmoi
  • macOS: brew install chezmoi
  • Ubuntu/Snap: snap install --classic chezmoi
• Chezmoi Modify Manager: Unzip release and add to PATH
  • macOS: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "$HOME/bin/chezmoi_modify_manager"
• PowerShell (Windows only): winget install -e --id Microsoft.PowerShell
• Dashlane CLI (Work only): Unzip release and add to PATH

Install

1. Reset WinGet if needed (Windows only, see workaround):

   Reset-AppxPackage -Package 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_1.26.430.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe'

2. Restart shell or reload environment variables

3. dcli sync (Work only)

4. chezmoi init --apply gtbuchanan

Troubleshooting

WinGet Errors

WinGet intermittently fails with RPC errors. To retry from the repo root (cmcd):

winget configure -f dist/winget.yaml --suppress-initial-details --accept-configuration-agreements

Alternatively, clear the script cache and re-run chezmoi apply:

chezmoi state delete-bucket --bucket=scriptState