(Originally forked from holman/dotfiles)
Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.
I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.
If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read my post on the subject.
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java
directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh
will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink
will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME
when you run script/bootstrap
.
A lot of stuff. Seriously, a lot of stuff. Check them out in the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
bin/
will get added to your $PATH
and be made
available everywhere..zsh
get loaded into your
environment.path.zsh
is loaded first and is
expected to setup $PATH
or similar.completion.zsh
is loaded
last and is expected to setup autocomplete.*.symlink
get symlinked into
your $HOME
. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles
but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get
symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap
.~/.localrc
. This means they'll stay out of your main dotfiles repository (which may be public, like this one), but you'll have access to them in your scripts.Run this:
git clone https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap
This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles
to your home directory.
Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles
.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink
,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
dot
is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X
defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot
from
time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find
this script in bin/
.
Then you may want to run ~/.dotfiles/script/install
, or manually run appropriate install scripts, I tend to like to start with:
# Check latest python/ruby/node versions + update appropriate vars, then run these
~/.dotfiles/ruby/install.sh
~/.dotfiles/python/install.sh
~/.dotfiles/node/install.sh
You might want to setup GPG commit signing for git.. this isn't automated yet..
I want this to work for everyone; that means when you clone it down it should
work for you even though you may not have rbenv
installed, for example. That
said, I do use this as my dotfiles, so there's a good chance I may break
something if I forget to make a check for a dependency.
If you're brand-new to the project and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository and I'd love to get it fixed for you!
I forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of my changes and tweaks inspired me to finally roll my own. But Ryan's dotfiles were an easy way to get into bash customization, and then to jump ship to zsh a bit later. A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from Ryan's original project.
chrome-*
(Chrome Extension) repospoc-*
(Proof of Concept) reposdevalias does dotfiles
Create a new window from the tabs to the right of the currently selected tab.
My user scripts to add functionality to various sites around the web (that were too small for me to bother turning into a full-fledged Chrome extension)
Awesome list of Gmail filters and related resources