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• MyIDE
  • Desktop
    • Desktop Installation
    • Desktop Usage
  • Terminal
    • Terminal Installation
    • Terminal Usage
  • PowerShell
    • PowerShell Installation
    • PowerShell Usage
  • VSCode-Neovim
  • Miscellaneous

Desktop

Desktop Installation

• TranslucentTB : A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

• PowerToys : A set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. There's some Third-Party plugins for PowerToy Run.

• PixPin : A series of functions related to screenshot textures, including screenshots, long screenshots, cropped images, textures, OCR, etc

• Nerd Font : A series of fonts that been pathed with high number of icons. My choice is Source Code Pro.

• Install a Cursor Theme you'd like.

• Press Win+I and check if there are any settings that need to be changed.

Desktop Usage

Shortcut	Descript
Win+E	Explorer
Win+{num}	Launch app on taskbar
Win+↑	Maximize window
Win+↓	Minimize window
Win+←	Snap window left
Win+→	Snap window right
Alt+Tab	Switch window
Alt+F4	Close window
Win+D	Show/Hide desktop
Win+,	Peek desktop
Win+L	Lock desktop
Win+Ctrl+D	New virtual desktop
Win+Ctrl+→	Right virtual desktop
Win+Ctrl+←	Left virtual desktop
Win+;	Emoji
Win+V	Clipboard history
Win++	Zoom in
Win+-	Zoom out
Win+Shift+?	Shortcut help

Terminal

Terminal Installation

• Install Windows Terminal

• Configure Windows Terminal by pressing Ctrl+Shift+, in terminal window, you could refer to my settings.json.

Tips:

• All colorschemes are adjusted to fit both light and dark theme of system.
• The font family is set to SauceCodePro Nerd Font

Terminal Usage

Shortcut	Description
Win+`	Toggle quake (dropdown) window
Ctrl+Shift+{num}	New tab with profile {num}
Ctrl+Shift+D	Duplication current tab
Ctrl+Shift+W	Close tab
Alt+Shift+S	Horizontally split the pane
Alt+Shift+V	Vertically split the pane
Alt+Shift+Z	Toggle the pane zoom
Alt+Left	Move focus left
Alt+Right	Move focus right
Alt+Up	Move focus up
Alt+Down	Move focus down
MouseSelect	Copy
Shift+MouseSelect	Incremental Copy
Alt+MouseSelect	Copy block area
Ctrl+Shift+V	Paste
Ctrl+Shift+F	Search

PowerShell

PowerShell Installation

• Install PowerShell

Tips: Do not install PowerShell from MS Store since the packaged Powershell app will case some issues because of app permission

• Install Scoop: A package manager to install apps in command line.

• Install the required tools and PowerShell modules

  # Required
  scoop install 7zip git # aria2
  scoop install oh-my-posh zoxide lsd bat ripgrep fd fzf
  Install-Module posh-git
  Install-Module PSFzf
  
  # Optional but recommended
  ~\scoop\apps\7zip\current\install-context.reg
  [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path',"${env:GIT_INSTALL_ROOT}\user\bin;$([System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', 'User'))", 'User')
  

• Configure PowerShell by executing notepad $PROFILE in PowerShell command line, you could refer to my profile.ps1

Tips: I've patched PSFzf thus it could work together with my profile, you can view the patch here

• Copy the theme file base16_bear.omp.json into %USERPROFILE%\Documents\PowerShell

• Configure %USERPROFILE%\.gitconfig

  [user]
    name = Your Name
    email = username@email.com
  [core]
    editor = nvim
  [diff]
    tool = nvimdiff
  [pull]
    rebase = true
    autoStash = true
  [merge]
    ff = false
  

• Configure %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config, thus you can push and pull from github via ssh with url git@github.com:user/repo. Of course, you need to add your own ssh public key to github first

  Host github.com
     Hostname ssh.github.com
     Port 443
     User git
     IdentitiesOnly yes
     IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key.pem
  

You could find the document for WSL configuration section here, the dotfiles for WSL/Linux is still in the repository.

PowerShell Usage

Shortcut	Description
Esc	Vi mode, v in vi mode means open $EDITOR to edit command
Ctrl+A	Move to the start of the line
Ctrl+E	Move to the end of the line
Ctrl+H	Delete character left
Ctrl+W	Delete word left
Ctrl+U	Delete all left
Ctrl+K	Delete all right
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y	Redo
Tab	Complete command or arguments
Ctrl+P	Previous command history with current prefix
Ctrl+N	Next command history with current prefix
Ctrl+R	Fuzzy search command history
Alt+A	Fuzzy search command argument history
Ctrl+T	Fuzzy search files in current directory
Alt+C	Fuzzy search directories in current directory

Utils	Description
l	List files (requrie lsd)
tree	List files as tree (require lsd)
z	Change to directory by fuzzy name (require zoxide)
zi	Change to directory by fuzzy name interactively (require zoxide)
zoxide edit	Adjust priority of directories
tokei	Count code
cht	Search for a cheat sheet on cheat.sh
px	Show/Set/Enable/Disable proxy address
notify	Show Windows notification popup, e.g. notify "Title" "Body"

Git Aliases	Git subcommand	Description
gst	status	Show all changes in workspace and index
ga	add	Update changes from workspace to index
gaa	add	Update all changes from workspace to index
gau	add	Update all changes from workspace to index exclude untracked files
gcln	clean	Clean all untracked files
grs	restore	Restore workspace from index (default) or a commit
gstl	stash	Show stashes
gsta	stash	Stash all changes in workspace and index
gstp	stash	Restore the changes from stash and delete it (default last)
gstaa	stash	Restore the changes from stash (default last)
gstd	stash	Delete stash (default last)
gc	commit	Add a new commit from index
gc!	commit	Add a new commit base on grandparent commit and move HEAD to it (like overwrite but keep history commit)
glg	log	Show commit and its ancestry, revision form like HEAD^
grlg	reflog	Show commits of HEAD history, revision form like @{1}
gd	diff	Show changes (default between workspace and index)
gdt	difftool	Show changes (default between workspace and index) by nvim
gmt	mergetool	Resolve conflicts by nvim, or you can use gco --ours . or gco --theirs .
gm	merge	Merge a commit to HEAD, and do not allow fast forward
gmc	merge	Continue merge
gms	merge	Skip current patch and continue merge
gma	merge	Abort merge
grb	rebase	Rebase HEAD (default) or commit onto a commit
grbc	rebase	Continue rebase
grbs	rebase	Skip current patch and continue rebase
grba	rebase	Abort rebase
gcp	cherry-pick	Apply change in a commit to HEAD
gcpc	cherry-pick	Continue cherry pick
gcps	cherry-pick	Skip current patch and continue cherry pick
gcpa	cherry-pick	Abort cherry pick
grv	revert	Revert a commit to HEAD
grvc	revert	Continue revert
grvs	revert	Skip current patch and continue revert
grva	revert	Abort revert
grh	reset	Reset HEAD to a commit and keep all the changes in workspace and index
grhh	reset	Reset HEAD to a commit and do not keep the changes
gbl	branch	Show branches
gb	branch	Add new branch at HEAD (default) or commit
gcb	checkout	Add new branch at HEAD (default) or commit and checkout it
gcb!	checkout	Add new branch at HEAD (default) or commit (overwrite exist) and checkout it
gbu	branch	Set upstream of HEAD
gbrn	branch	Rename branch at HEAD (default) or commit
gbrn!	branch	Rename branch at HEAD (default) or commit (overwrite exist)
gbd	branch	Delete merged branch
gbd!	branch	Delete branch even if not merged
gco	checkout	Checkout target commit
gcor	checkout	Checkout target commit recursively
gr	remote	Remote
grl	remote	List remotes
gra	remote	Add remote
grrn	remote	Rename remote
gru	remote	Set thr url of remote
grd	remote	Delete remote
gf	fetch	Fetch remotes
gl	pull	Pull remotes and rebase, and automatically stash push and pop before and after
gp	push	Push a ref to remote
gp!	push	Push a ref to remote (--force-with-lease)
gp!!	push	Push a ref to remote (--force)
gcl	clone	Clone remote
gclr	clone	Clone remote recursively
gsa	submodule	Add a submodule
gsu	submodule	Init and update submodules to expected version. To modify submodule,
gsd	submodule	Delete a submodule
lg		Open Lazygit
gig		Create a .gitignore template for you, .e.g gig c++ windows

Tips:

• You don't need to remenber all the git aliases, use your favorite git UI tool instead, such as lazygit, fork or gitkraken. The git aliases list above is just to tell you the basic git operations you should know.
• Highly recommended for this blog post about git flow.

VSCode-Neovim

1. Install Neovim and C/C++ toolchains

   scoop install neovim mingw
   

2. Configure Neovim

   # required
   Move-Item $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim.bak
   # optional but recommended
   Move-Item $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim-data $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim-data.bak
   # clone
   git clone https://github.com/mrbeardad/nvim $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nvim
   # start and install plugins
   nvim
   

3. Install VSCode

4. Configure VSCode

   1. This is my settings.json and keybindings.json, you could copy them to %APPDATA%\Code\User optionally
   2. This is my lastSyncextensions.json, you could copy it to %APPDATA%\Code\User\sync\extensions\

5. For more detail about configuration and usage of vscode and neovim, refer to mrbeardad/nvim

Miscellaneous

Most of the tools below could be installed by scoop

scoop install fastfetch cht tokei lazygit everything-alpha
cp .\lazygit\config.yml ~\AppData\Local\lazygit\config.yml
~\scoop\apps\everything-alpha\current\install-context.reg

• fastfetch: A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

• cht: The only cheat sheet you need

• tokei: Count your code, quickly.

• lazygit: Simple terminal UI for git commands

• Everything: Locate files and folders by name instantly.

• dual-key-remap: Remap any key to any other two keys on Windows 🔥. Remap CapsLock to both Ctrl and Escape! (It's like xcape for windows!)

• huorong: The easiest way to shutdown Windows Defender

• Clash Verge Rev: A Clash (proxy client) GUI based on Tauri.

  Tips: You may also need geoip and clash-rules.

• Sysinternals : Sysinternals Suite is a bundle of the Sysinternals utilities including Process Explorer, Process Monitor, Sysmon, Autoruns, ProcDump, all of the PsTools, and many more.

  Tips: My Process Explorer Column Set。

• ImHex: A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

• petools: Portable executable (PE) manipulation toolkit.

  Tips: Launch petools and check on the option PE Editor > Register Shell Extension, then you can right click exe/dll file and load into PE Editor without launch whole PE Tools.

• RisohEditor: Another free Win32 resource editor

• Dependencies: A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.

• ILSpy: .NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata (&more) - cross-platform!

• IDA: IDA is the leading tool for binary analysis, trusted by top cybersecurity teams for reverse engineering and malware defense. Simplify complex binaries and boost your security processes with its advanced analysis features.

• Cheat Engine: A development environment focused on modding

• WireShark: The world's leading network protocol analyzer. Wireshark lets you dive deep into your network traffic - free and open source.

• reqable: Advanced API Debugging Proxy and REST Client. Reqable = Fiddler + Charles + Postman, make your debugging faster and easier.

  Tips:

  • You need a tool, such as EnableLoopback.exe, to enable capturing the uwp app network. Clash Verge Rev aslo conatins it.