holman andrei does dotfiles

dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine. This repository is inspired by (and a fork of) @holman's dotfile repository.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read @holman's post on the subject.

install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/AndreiBarsan/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/.

this fork

There are several major differences between this (obviously personalized) fork and @holman's upstream version.

First, I'm a vim user so my vimrc has way more stuff in it, and I've removed all the atom configs and utilities.

Second, I use tmux extensively, so I've added a tmux.conf with a lot of goodies like plugin support via tpm.

I also added many things to the bin/ directory, such as quick-and-dirty single-word commands for ssh-ing to things defined in my (private) .ssh/config, as well as some CUDA and OpenCV helpers.

There's also some scripts for checking one's writing for things like weasel words, repetitions, etc. See bin/passive.sh, bin/dups.pl, and bin/weasel.sh.

Apart from these major differences, there are also lots of other tiny tweaks all over the place. Feel free to open up an issue if you're interested in something but it doesn't seem to be working right!

topical

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.

what's inside

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.

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew Cask to install: things like Chrome and 1Password and Adium and stuff. Might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
• topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install. To avoid being loaded automatically, its extension is .sh, not .zsh.
• topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink gets 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.

bugs

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!

thanks

Thanks to Zach Holman, whose repository I originally forked. I learned a ton from your repo, and still use many of the little helpers and aliases you added to it. Thank you!