Building your Mouseless Development Environment

Description

Do You Write Code With Your Mouse? A book to use more of the keyboard, less of the mouse. What Will This Book Bring You? A scalable development environment where you mainly use your keyboard to increase your efficiency. Your Mouseless Development Environment will include these tools: Arch Linux Zsh i3 window manager tmux Neovim You don't like some of them? No problem! You can replace Vim by your IDE, or Arch Linux by Ubuntu. I show you the "how" and you decide the "what". A mouseless environment is often centered around the Linux shell. If you don't use a shell often, that's fine too. You'll learn step by step. Precise explanations how to configure everything, depending on your needs. You'll be in control, deciding what's more efficient for you. Knowledge about Linux and the terminal. You'll learn to use timeless, customizable, and powerful tools. How to build a personalized installer to bring all your tools and their configurations easily on any computer. Introduction Acknowledgments Welcome, Mouseless Developers Who Should Read This Book? What Is a Mouseless Development Environment? What Do You Need to Follow Along? Creating Your Own Cheatsheets Experimenting Is Key Styling Conventions Choose Your Tools In a Nutshell Part I - Arch Linux A General Linux Overview Diving Inside Linux The Linux Filesystem Linux Distributions Packages and Repositories Why Arch Linux? The Glory of Rolling Distributions The Arch Linux Community Official Repositories and the Arch User Repositories (AUR) The Fabulous Manual Troubleshooting General Recommendations Using VMWare Software In a Nutshell Going Deeper The Power Is In Your Fingers Efficient Typing: The Two Rules The First Week The Second Week Speed and Accuracy In A Nutshell Going Deeper Preparing Your System for Arch Linux Prerequisites Burning the Arch Linux ISO Configuring the Arch Linux Live System Keyboard Layout Connecting to the Internet System Clock BIOS or UEFI? Partitioning the Hard Disk Wiping Your Hard Disk Using fdisk Boot Partition Root and Swap Partition Formatting the Partitions The UEFI Boot partition Root and Swap Filesystems Mounting the Filesystems Mounting the Root Partition UEFI and The Boot Partition Continuing The Installation In a Nutshell Going Deeper Installing Arch Linux Installing the Base Packages Mounting Automatically Partitions With fstab Changing The Root Directory with arch-chroot The Root User's Password Through Time and Space: Configuring the Timezone Choose Your Locale Naming Your New World GRUB, The Linux Bootloader Bootloader With a UEFI Bootloader With a BIOS Enabling the Network Manager Diving in the Shell Command-Line 101 A Good Complement to the Manual Input Output Redirections Pipes Input and Arguments Rebooting The System Troubleshooting Pacman In a Nutshell Going Deeper Welcome To Arch Linux Connecting to The Internet, Third Round Using a Cable Using the Wi-Fi Installing the Manuals Processes The Init Process: systemd Logging the Init Process With journald Processes As Files Environment Variables Creating A New User The Default Text Editors The Return of the Environment Variable Trying visudo Again First Steps In Neovim Neovim Modes Editing with Neovim Using Sudo Best Practices For Linux Shells Strings Globbing Strings And Quotes In a Nutshell Going Deeper Links Manual Graphical Interface The X Window System The X What? Installing X URxvt, Our Terminal Emulator Video Terminals and TTYs Installing i3 Window Manager Launching X Installing Fonts Launching i3 Graphic Cards and Video Drivers In a Nutshell Going Deeper Part II - The Tools First Steps in i3 Window Manager Screen Resolution The Basics of i3 i3bar and i3status Installing Your Favorite Browser Program Launcher Copy and Paste Pasting From a PDF The Book Companion Troubleshooting In a Nutshell Going Deeper Configuring URxvt The Colors of the Terminal Making URxvt Prettier Configuring URxvt Character Fonts Window Default URxvt Daemon In a Nutshell Going Deeper The Basics of Neovim Neovim Modes Configuring Neovim Forget the Arrow Keys Switching To Insert Mode Undo And Redo Motions Horizontal Motions Vertical Motions Scrolling commands The Language of Neovim Operators Text Objects A Basic Configuration Neovim's Options Swap Files Undo Tree General Options In a Nutshell Going Deeper Arch Linux Package Managers Operations and Options Official Repositories Updating Your System Removing Packages Searching Packages Pacman's Cache The Arch User Repository (AUR) The Package Manager Yay Clearing Yay Cache Installing Packages With Yay Adding Tabs for URxvt Neovim Language Extensions Pacman Troubleshooting Pacman Configuration In a Nutshell Going Deeper Dotfiles Hard and Symbolic Links Hard Links Symbolic Links The Structure of the Dotfiles Project Our First Bash Script Running A Shell Script Linux Permissions Making Our Dotfiles Public The SSH Protocol Adding Your SSH Public Key to GitHub In a Nutshell Going Deeper General Articles Getting Inspired i3: A Deeper Dive How To Use i3? General Organization The Default Shortcuts Configuring i3 Configuration Files Default Configuration Program Launcher Moving Windows and Changing Focus Split containers Workspaces Resizing Windows Locking Your Screen Lock, Shutdown, and Reboot Menu Wallpaper Floating windows Colors and Style Scratchpad The i3 Status Bar Managing Your Screen Updating Our Dotfiles In a Nutshell Going Deeper The Z-Shell (Zsh) Framework Or No Framework? Zsh Config Files Basic Zsh Configuration Environment Variables Aliases Options Zsh Completion System Pimp My Zsh Prompt Zsh Directory Stack Zsh, Your New Best Friend Zsh With Vim Flavors Enabling the Vi Mode Changing Cursor Vim Mapping For Completion Editing Commands In Neovim Zsh Plugins Zsh Additional Completion Zsh Syntax Highlighting Jumping To A Parent Directory Custom Scripts The Fuzzy Finder fzf Automatically Starting i3 In a Nutshell Going Deeper Zsh Documentation Author's dotfiles Improving Your Mouseless Development Environment Improving the Dotfiles Install Script Adding And Configuring Fonts Installing Fonts Changing URxvt's Fonts Changing i3's Fonts Desktop Notifications With Dunst Automatically Mounting Devices Visual Configuration Remapping Your Caps Lock A New Escape Key Two Keys in One The Problem of the External Keyboard Git diff In a Nutshell Going Deeper Neovim: A Deeper Dive Neovim Spatial Organization Buffers Windows Tabs Argument List (arglist) Mapping Keystrokes Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump List Change List Method Jump Repeating Keystrokes Single Repeat Complex Repeat: The Macro The Command Window Revisiting the Undo Tree Plugins Plugin Manager Closing Buffers Without Closing Windows Managing Windows Easily Navigating Through The Buffer List Manipulating the Undo Tree Automatically Installing the Plugin Manager In a Nutshell Going Deeper The Terminal Multiplexer tmux What's tmux? Why use Tmux? Background Operations More Terminals! Everywhere! Saving tmux Sessions Remote Pair Programming How to use tmux? General Organization tmux Workflow Managing tmux Sessions Configuring tmux The Essentials of tmux Increasing The Maximum Output Lines Managing Windows Design Plugins The tmux Plugins Manager Fuzzy Search And Copy with fzf and Extrakto Creating tmux Sessions Automatically i3 Scratchpad Running tmux Choosing Your tmux Session With fzf In a nutshell Going Deeper Neovim Plugins The Language Server Protocol The Plugin coc.vim Extensions to coc.vim tmux completion Fuzzy Finder in Neovim With fzf Navigating files Linter Surrounding Navigating in Open Buffers Text Objects Register History Snippets Search And Replace Status Bar Color Scheme Manual Pages In Neovim The Undo-tree Tmux Startup Git Syntax Highlighting Misc In a Nutshell Going Deeper Mouseless Browsers Lynx Help Navigation History Page Data Bookmarks Downloading Options Quitting Lynx Qutebrowser Basics Navigation Tabs Modes Browser Plugins Firefox Chrome In a Nutshell Going Deeper Part III - Arch Linux Installer The System Installer The Project The User Interface Preliminary Configuration Is It the Good Time? Return Code and Operators Output Redirection UEFI or BIOS, That Is The Question Choosing The Hard Disk Bash arrays Pipes Awk Grep Putting Everything Together In a Nutshell Going Deeper Partitioning and Installing Arch Linux Size of the Partitions Erasing the Hard Disk Creating Partitions Boot Partition With BIOS or UEFI Automating fdisk Formatting partitions General Case Special Case Generating fstab And Installing Arch Linux The Adventure Continue! The End of the Installer In a Nutshell Going Deeper Creating Users and Passwords Getting Back the Block Devices and the Boot Mode Naming Your Newborn System Installing The Bootloader GRUB Clock and Timezone Configuring the Locales Root Password and User Creation Arch Linux Is Now Fully Configured In a Nutshell Going Deeper Installing The Tools The List of Applications Groups of Applications Parsing the CSV Updating the System Installing the Packages Permission For Power: sudo Invoking The Last Installer Script In a Nutshell Going Deeper The User Installer Usual Linux Directories Installing Packages From the AUR Installing the Dotfiles The One Command To Invoke The Installer In a Nutshell Going Deeper This is the End Going Deeper