Arch Linux Dotfiles Managed by GNU Stow

Before stowing anything or when making changes, always check beforehand the changes that will be made using stow --verbose --simulation .

To install the dotfiles, just run stow . in the dotfiles directory.

NOTE: There are scripts that need to be run in the ./scripts directory before and after installation.

Util	Program used
Shell	Bash
WM/DE	Niri
Editor	Emacs
Terminal	Kitty
Audio	EMMS (Emacs built-in)
Videos	MPV
System Monitor	Bottom
Mail	still wip
File Manager (GUI)	Nautilus
File Manager (TUI)	Dired (Emacs built-in)
RSS Reader	Newsticker (Emacs built-in)
Theme	Rose Pine
Matrix Client	ement.el
IRC Client	erc (Emacs built-in)
Git Client	Magit (Emacs built-in)

Dotfiles structure

The dotfiles are mapped to follow $HOME. So $HOME/.config is mapped to $DOTFILES/dot-config.

$HOME/.config
└── lazygit
    └── config.yml

$DOTFILES/dot-config
└── lazygit
    └── config.yml

Resources

Learn Vim Regex

Really good for text operations.

• Use :help pattern
• learnvim.irian.to: has a focused regex section in context of Vim usage
• vimregex.com - dedicated Vim regex reference with examples, good for quick lookup
• Practical Vim by Drew Neil - covers regex in the context of real editing workflows (search, substitution, global commands), which is more useful than learning it in the abstract.

Work In Progress

• [ ] Set up email client in Emacs

Post-Installation Notes

The scripts directory

Some installation scripts are present in the scripts directory (not stowed), to complete the setup. For example it has some scripts to install some mpv scripts.