Archived

This repo contained my dotfiles untill 2023, now they are all managed to my nix-config. Check out the config/ folder for actual dot files like neovim/i3/wezterm config and such.

Dot Files

My OS X / Ubuntu / Debian dotfiles.

What's this?

The dotfiles of (github.com/marcusramberg)[marcusramberg] - Initially system was based on (github.com/cowboy/dotfiles)[Cowboy's dotfiles]. They are heavily changed to use ansible, zsh, and debianish/arch, as well as my config files.

That command is ~/bin/dotfiles, and this is my "dotfiles" Git repo.

What, exactly, does the "dotfiles" command do?

It's really not complicated. When you run dotfiles , it does the following things:

1. Installs Git if necessary, via APT or Homebrew (also installed if necessary).
2. Clones this repo into the ~/.dotfiles directory (or updated if it already exists).
3. Executes files in init (in alphanumeric order).
4. Copies in copy into ~/.
5. Links files and folders in link into ~/.
6. Sets up prefs as well as vim plugins.

Note:

• The backups folder only gets created when necessary. Any files in ~/ that would have been overwritten by copy or link get backed up there.
• Files in bin are executable shell scripts (includes ~/.dotfiles/bin into the path).
• Files in source get sourced whenever you open a new shell (in alphanumeric order)..
• Files in conf just sit there. If a config file doesn't need to go in ~/, put it in there.
• Files in caches are cache files, only used by some scripts. This folder is auto-created.

Installation

OS X

Notes:

• You need to be an administrator (for sudo).
• You need to have installed XCode Command Line Tools, which are available as a separate, optional (and much smaller) download from XCode.

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcusramberg/dotfiles/master/bin/dotfiles)" && source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Ubuntu

Notes:

• You need to be an administrator (for sudo).
• If APT wasn't updated or upgraded recently, it will probably take some minutes before you see anything.

sudo apt-get -qq update && sudo apt-get -qq upgrade && sudo apt-get -qq install curl ansible && echo &&
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcusramberg/dotfiles/master/bin/dotfiles)" && source ~/.zshrc

The "init" step

These things will be installed, but only if they aren't already.

OS X

• Homebrew
  • git
  • tree
  • sl
  • lesspipe
  • id3tool
  • nmap
  • git-extras
  • htop-osx
  • apple-gcc42 (via homebrew-dupes)

Ubuntu

• APT
  • build-essential
  • libssl-dev
  • git-core
  • tree
  • sl
  • id3tool
  • nmap
  • telnet
  • htop

Both

• Nave
  • Npm (latest stable)
    • Grunt
    • JSHint
    • Uglify-JS
• Rbenv
  • Ruby 1.9.3-p194 (default)
  • Ruby 1.9.2-p290 (default)
• Ruby Gems
  • bundler
  • awesome_print
  • interactive_editor
• Perlbrew

The ~/ "copy" step

Any file in the copy subdirectory will be copied into ~/. Any file that needs to be modified with personal information (like .gitconfig which contains an email address and private key) should be copied into ~/. Because the file you'll be editing is no longer in ~/.dotfiles, it's less likely to be accidentally committed into your public dotfiles repo.

The ~/ "link" step

Any file in the link subdirectory gets symbolically linked with ln -s into ~/. Edit these, and you change the file in the repo. Don't link files containing sensitive data, or you might accidentally commit that data!

Aliases and Functions

To keep things easy, the ~/.zshrc file is extremely simple, and should never need to be modified. Instead, add your aliases, functions, settings, etc into one of the files in the source subdirectory, or add a new file. They're all automatically sourced when a new shell is opened. Take a look, I have a lot of aliases and functions. I even have a fancy prompt that shows the current directory, time and current git/svn repo status.

Scripts

In addition to the aforementioned dotfiles script, there are a few other scripts. This includes ack, which is a git submodule.

• dotfiles - (re)initialize dotfiles. It might ask for your password (for sudo).
• src - (re)source all files in source directory
• Look through the bin subdirectory for a few more.

Git repos display as [branch:flags] where flags are:

? untracked files ! changed (but unstaged) files + staged files

SVN repos display as [rev1:rev2] where rev1 and rev2 are:

rev1 last changed revision rev2 revision

Inspiration

https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles (and 15+ years of accumulated crap)

License

Some parts Copyright (c) 2012 Marcus Ramberg Copyright (c) 2012 "Cowboy" Ben Alman Licensed under the MIT license. http://benalman.com/about/license/