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My dot files and how to install/use them.

These are opinionated towards my setup: Ubuntu with XFCE Terminal and tmux.

The idea is to have a great environment for the shell, git and programming shell/web/ruby/rails in VIM.

Installation:

Auto install script via wget or curl:

This also installs packages via apt.

wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/ashayh/dotfiles/raw/master/ubuntu_bootstrap.sh -O - | bash

curl -L https://github.com/ashayh/dotfiles/raw/master/ubuntu_bootstrap.sh | bash

Manual Install:
  • Try to read the script create_dotfiles_etc, and the variables used.

  • Make sure you have $CMDS installed. Else, the script asks you to install them and exits.

  • BEFORE you git clone, and run create_dotfiles_etc, make sure ${HOME}/dotfiles is absent.

    Then run:

    cd ~ ; git clone https://github.com/ashayh/dotfiles.git ;

  • Run the script: ~/dotfiles/create_dotfiles_etc

  • Note: Any existing dot files will be moved to /tmp with a timestamp.

Note: After the .vimrc is installed, the first time you run VIM, the VIM addon manager will try to pull in all plugins:

Answer Y here: Clone VAM into ~/.vim/vim-addons?

After the first plugin is cloned, type command when the add on installer script pauses. Else, you have to press Enter to install all plugins.

Type command here: Press ENTER or type command to continue

Note: The cloning of all repos takes a few minutes, until which the screen sometimes may be blank/unresponsive.

How does it work?

Check the create_dotfiles_etc script for the variables described below.

  • Checks if ~/dotfiles exists, and is this repo (ashayh/dotfile.git)
  • Checks if $CMDS exists, and exits if any is absent.
  • Checks if $MAKE_DIRS exist, and creates if needed.
  • Checks if $DOTFILES exist, and add if needed.
  • Adds to .oh-my-zsh/custom via $OH_MY_FILES
  • Adds to .oh-my-zsh/plugins via $OH_MY_PLUGINS
  • Adds scripts to ~/bin from this repo via $BIN_FILES Note: Existing configs and dirs will be moved to /tmp

.zshrc

This is standard rc from .oh-my-zsh with a few more plugins and shortcuts.

  1. Ctrl+f to cut words on the cmd line up to the last slash.
  2. Ctrl+g to cut words to last non-alpha character.
    • Useful for cutting up to : ; or similar.
  3. Command is commented if preceded by #. Good to "store" cmds for later use.
  4. Redirect fails to overwrite if file exists.
  5. In addition to oh-my-zsh plugins, add syntax highlight and history search

.vimrc

Leader=,

Shortcuts direct in .vimrc:

  1. Ctrl+L to refresh page and un-highlight search.
  2. F2 to toggle paste mode.
  3. F12 to toggle mouse.
  4. Auto chmod +x based on she bang line.
  5. Colorscheme=jellybeans
  6. Tabs are space, with tabstops=2
  7. Show trailing spaces with .
  8. .swp files placed in ~/.vim/tmp
  9. g{1,2} to move between windows. gx to swap.
  10. Capital Q and W made lower case. Disable visual mode with cap Q.
  11. F3 to search with FZF in current directory
Read more about plugin based shortcuts on each plugins website.

Plugins managed in by Plugged use :PlugInstall to install plugins My favourite plugin based shortcuts:

  1. ,t= ,t> Tabularize on = and >
  2. Ctrl+y to show yankring plugin.
    • See yanks across seperate vim sessions.
    • yankring files in ~/.vim/
  3. Use Tab to complete in insert mode with SuperTab.
  4. ,nn Nerd tree toggle. NerdTree plugin
  5. cs"' to change ("surround") double quotes with single, surround.vim plugin.
    • csw" to surround word with double quotes.
    • Use capital S in Visual mode to use surround.
      • Eg S<div class="btn"> surrounds visual selection with a div.
  6. ,,w to move fast with EasyMotion
  7. Ctrl + A Increment num, Ctrl + X Decrement num, speeddating plugin.
  8. Syntax check for various languages with syntastic plugin.
  9. Add end and close brackets/quotes in languages etc.
  10. ,t for Ctrl+P. Choose file then Ctrl+t or s or v to open it in a Tab, os split window.