MVL’s dotfiles

Forked from Mathias Bynens'

Based around a Monokai theme, includes the solutions I've found thus far to my most frequent terminal-related tasks.

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/mvaldesdeleon/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mvaldesdeleon/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,LICENSE-MIT.txt}

To update later on, just run that command again.

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before anything else takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds some directories to the $PATH:

# Verbose but straight-forward
path_directories=(
    '/Users/mvaldes/Miscellaneous/bin'
    '/Users/mvaldes/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools'
    '/Users/mvaldes/Library/Android/sdk/tools'
    '/opt/local/bin'
    '/opt/local/sbin'
    '/usr/local/bin'
    '/usr/texbin'
    '/usr/bin'
    '/bin'
    '/usr/sbin'
    '/sbin'
)

export PATH=$(printf "%s:" "${path_directories[@]}")
unset path_directories

# Additional paths (e.g., Z_PATH ) are also defined here

Add custom commands without creating a new fork

If ~/.extras exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extras looks something like this:

# Default username and hostname for prompt customization
export DEFAULT_USERNAME='mvaldes'
export DEFAULT_HOSTNAME='Martins-MacBook-Pro'
export DEFAULT_USER="$DEFAULT_USERNAME"

# Personal data for Git setup
export FULL_NAME="Martín Valdés de León"
export HOME_EMAIL="m.valdesdeleon@home.com"
export WORK_EMAIL="m.valdesdeleon@work.com"

# Git credentials
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$FULL_NAME"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

# Disabled to allow local overrides
# GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='$WORK_EMAIL'
# GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$WORK_EMAIL"

# Easier navigation: Custom/Work-related directories
# [aliases for quick cd'ing into specific directories, not included here]

# Git local user.email switcheroo
git config --global alias.work '! git config user.email "$WORK_EMAIL"'
git config --global alias.home '! git config user.email "$HOME_EMAIL"'

You could also use `~/.extras' to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

Z.sh

You will notice that .sharedrc:3 also initializes Z.sh. If you do not want to use this script, just remove or comment-out this line.

Bash Completion

I've included my bash completion files as part of this repo. Should you want to use them, just copy them to somewhere appropriate and update the BASH_COMPLETION_DIR variable in .bashrc:21.

Keep in mind that these are simply the files I'm currently using, and that they might very well be out-of-date. I am not the creator/maintainer of these and I'm just providing them for completion's sake.

Update 04-2016: I switched to zsh, so I will probably not be updating these.

TODO's

• Update screenshots
• Implement "New machine" files (.osx, Homebrew, Caskfile)

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Author

Martín Valdés de León.

Based on original work by Mathias Bynens, as well as whoever contributed on his project