Dotfiles

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

My dotfiles

Dotfiles

I chose Zach Holman's dotfiles as the base of this repo for its great bootstrap script and it's topical configuration. Where if you want to add a specific topic for configuration you can simply add a topic 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.

Requirements

• git
• curl

Install

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

Components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy. For preformance reasons, all files with .zsh ending must be in the zsh folder. This reduces the speed of every load to a .13%

• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.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.