My dotfiles

I spend a lot of time in the CLI, therefore I find it very important that it is setup in a way I like. That is not only because I want the time I spend in my CLI to be pleasant (although, that is absolutely a good reason!) but also to be efficient.

To achieve that it is important to have a look at your dotfiles.

While a lot of users do personalize their CLI in some way, it is not at all so common that people version their changes to them. They are also strewn all around the home directory and it is very hard to be sure where you can find what. As a result, this might make it harder for you to make customizations, so in a lot of cases you will not that make small change that might make your life a little better at all. But in the long run this all adds up.

Full disclosure: This project is heavily inspired by holman/dotfiles but there are some major differences (eg oh-my-zsh integration)

Topics

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.

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.
• 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.

Install

Run this:

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

Running this should not be a destructive action as the script asks you if there is some file it would overwrite. But please use with care as there might be some changes I did not anticipate.

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.

dotfile is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane macOS defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dotfile from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

You also might want to update the Brewfile to configure your applications you want to install as the list there is completely personal - or delete it altogether if you prefer not to have this in your dotfiles.