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An unnecessarily bright and intoxicatingly rad super dope setup for looking extra cool while you're doing terminal stuff on Zoom in front of other people ;)

In order to make your terminal look cooler than everybody elses, you're gonna need the following:

• Alacritty because stock terminals are for babies
• Some Alacritty themes, I'm using tokyo-night
• Oh My ZSH because lots of smart people use it and you'll feel smarter if you use it
• Tmux because I said so
• The Tmux Plugin Manager or tpm for short
• NvChad, or whatever Neovim setup you prefer
• A Nerd Font, I use SauceCodePro

You're also gonna need about 15 minutes to follow this setup guide because I'm just not cool enough to make a one-liner :(

The image above was taken on a Mac, you should be able to produce something near identical using these instructions.

1. Install Alacritty using the macOS binary from https://alacritty.org
2. Create the ~/.config/alacritty/ directory if it doesn't already exist
3. Follow the instructions from the alacritty-theme git repo to create the ~/.config/alacritty/themes directory and then clone the repo there
4. Finally, copy the alacritty.yml file from this repo to your ~/.config/alacritty/ directory

1. Check out the one-liner from the Oh My ZSH install page.
2. Add the following somewhere in your ~/.zshrc

export TERM="xterm-256color"
export PATH="$PATH:~/.config/nvim/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.tmux/plugins/tpm"
export PATH="$PATH:~/.config/nvim/bin"
alias vim="/opt/homebrew/bin/nvim"

alias nano="/opt/homebrew/bin/nvim" # lolol jk ;-) 

Optionally, you can choose from one of the prebuilt themes. I'm using this one.

1. A simple brew install tmux should do the trick
2. Follow these installation instructions for setting up tpm
3. Copy over the tmux.conf file from this repo to your ~/.config/tmux/ directory. Make sure to run prefix + I while in a tmux session to install the plugins.

1. Install neovim using brew install neovim
2. Use this one-liner to install NvChad which makes neovim extra awesome

NvChad comes with a bunch of different vim themes, I'm using gitub_dark. You can pick a theme by pressing leader (Spacebar by default) + t and then h

1. I found this guide for using brew to install nerd fonts super helpful and easy
2. If you choose a different Nerd Font just make sure to update your ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml file