Simons's dotfiles

• These are my dotfiles that I use on my laptop. They are forked from Paul Irish's Dotfiles and adjusted to my personal needs and preferences.
• This README is also largely Paul Irish's README.

Setup

installing & using

• fork this to your own acct
• clone that repo
• read and run parts of setup-a-new-machine.sh
• read and run symlink-setup.sh
  • git config needs attention, read the notes.
• use it. yay!

maintenance

• commit/push changes you want.
• you can also hypothetically cherry-pick commits from me and mathias and our fork ecosystem.

shell

This repo contains config for bash, zsh.

my favorite parts.

.aliases and .functions

So many goodies.

The "readline config" (.inputrc)

Basically it makes typing into the prompt amazing.

• tab like crazy for autocompletion that doesnt suck. tab all the things. srsly.
• no more that says "Display all 1745 possibilities? (y or n)" YAY
• type cat <uparrow> to see your previous cats and use them.
• case insensitivity.
• tab all the livelong day.

Moving around in folders (z, ..., cdf)

z helps you jump around to whatever folder. It uses actual real magic to determine where you should jump to. Seperately there's some ... aliases to shorten cd ../.. and .., .... etc. Then, if you have a folder open in Finder, cdf will bring you to it.

z dotfiles
z blog
....      # drop back equivalent to cd ../../..
z public
cdf       # cd to whatever's up in Finder

z learns only once its installed so you'll have to cd around for a bit to get it taught. Lastly, I use open . to open Finder from this path. (That's just available normally.)

overview of files

Automatic config

• .inputrc - behavior of the actual prompt line

shell environment

• .aliases
• .bash_profile
• .bash_prompt
• .bashrc
• .exports
• .functions
• .extra - not included, explained below

manual run

• setup-a-new-machine.sh - random apps i need installed
• symlink-setup.sh - sets up symlinks for all dotfiles.
• .osx - run on a fresh osx setup
• brew.sh - homebrew initialization

git, brah

• .git
• .gitattributes
• .gitconfig
• .gitignore

.extra for your private configuration

There will be items that don't belong to be committed to a git repo, because either 1) it shoudn't be the same across your machines or 2) it shouldn't be in a git repo. Kick it off like this:

touch ~/.extra && $EDITOR $_

I have some EXPORTS, my PATH construction, and a few aliases for ssh'ing into my servers in there.

I don't know how other folks manage their $PATH, but this is how I do mine:

PATH=/bin
PATH=$PATH:/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/sbin
PATH=$PATH:~/.rvm/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/code/git-friendly
PATH=$PATH:/Library/TeX/texbin
...
export PATH

Sensible OS X defaults

./.osx

~/bin

One-off binaries that aren't via an npm global or homebrew. git open, wifi-password, coloredlogcat, git-overwritten, and subl for Sublime Text.

Syntax highlighting for these files

If you edit this stuff, install Dotfiles Syntax in Atom/Sublime