Purpose

Dotfiles for Electrical Engineering work environments — and anyone who wants an opinionated, modern, layered shell setup on Linux or Windows.

Built on 30+ years of EE workflow experience. Designed to be adopted without modification and overridden without forking.

What's Included

Component	Description
Bash	Layered config (global→corp→site→project→user), modern aliases, fzf/zoxide/eza/bat integration
Neovim	Kickstart.nvim base, Lazy.nvim, LSP, treesitter, locked plugin versions
Vim	Bundled plugins (NERDTree, SimpylFold), no internet required
Tmux	Bundled plugins (resurrect, continuum, better-mouse-mode), Ctrl-\ prefix
PowerShell	Aliases, Unix coreutils wrappers, PSReadLine, Starship, zoxide, PSFzf
WezTerm	Terminal config
Starship	Cross-shell prompt config
AutoHotKey	Flat AHK script with optional features enabled via dotkeys_config.toml
EditorConfig	Consistent formatting across editors

Design Goals

Multi-platform — RedHat 7/8/9, Suse, x86_64/ARM/PowerPC, Windows

Offline-first — plugins are bundled; no internet required at install time

No root — installs entirely to $HOME; no package manager or sudo needed

Layered — configuration precedence from lowest to highest: Global → Corp → Site → Project → User

Each layer can override the previous without touching upstream files, so personal customizations survive future updates to the base config.

Opinionated but escapable — sensible defaults out of the box; every preference is a cfg_* variable you can override in your user layer.

Installation

Linux:

./install

Windows (PowerShell, no elevation required):

.\install.ps1

If scripts are blocked, search: windows enable running powershell scripts

If you're starting from the default Windows PowerShell 5.1, run this first:

.\install-powershell-latest.ps1

Then rerun .\install.ps1 from PowerShell 7 (pwsh).

Windows AutoHotKey notes:

• install.ps1 creates %USERPROFILE%\dotkeys_config.toml to choose which AutoHotKey features are enabled.
• The installer patches those feature flags into %USERPROFILE%\autohotkey\hotkeys.ahk after copying it.
• Current feature IDs: corp-logins, mouse-wiggle, cisco-secure-client-vpn, password-manager, tmux-hotkeys, f1f2f3-as-mouse-buttons, thinlinc-reconnect.

See CLAUDE.md for full details: --dev, --links, --no-backup, backup/restore, layer overrides, and Windows copy destinations.

Related

EE Linux Tools — companion repo providing pre-built modern CLI binaries (RipGrep, Tmux, EZA, etc.) for offline/locked-down Linux environments.