My dotfiles

Easily and consistenly setup your machines and keep them in sync.

• Look at Awesome Dotfiles for lots of context
• initially forked from paulirish/dotfiles
• Also consider peeping mathias or alrra. paulmillr and gf3 also have great setups

TODO

For Warp

• keep the preprompt render from Pure
• keep z?
• keep the git plugins from omz??
• keep zsh-async for for git status checks, etc.?
• keep auto-ls
• keep init rbenv
• keep init brew & prefix stuff
• keep file sourcing loop
• keep history/hist stuff??
• keep $JAVA_HOME check

In General

• Consider updating to only worry about zsh
• Replace zplug with newer hotness
  • zpm?
  • zi?
  • zimfw?
  • zinit?
  • zgenom?
  • zgem?
  • zcomet?
  • sheldon???
  • look at zsh-bench
• Review applications.txt and move to official location
• Review .osx and explore replacement options
• Reorganize!

Migration Setup

On old machine

Follow backup instructions from setup-a-new-machine.sh

On new machine

• Continue with instructions in setup-a-new-machine.sh
• download xcode command line tools
• 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

• branch for any big changes (e.g. new zsh plugin manager)
• commit/push changes you want

some good 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 "magically" determines where you should jump to. And it allows partial matches.

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 dev
....      # drop back equivalent to cd ../../..
cdf       # cd to whatever's up in Finder
# etc. etc.
z dot # opens dotfiles

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

overview of files

Automatic config

• .vim - vim config, obv.
• .inputrc - behavior of the prompt line

shell environment

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

manual run

• setup-a-new-machine.sh - migration & setup instructions
• symlink-setup.sh - sets up symlinks for all dotfiles and vim config.
• .osx - run on a fresh osx setup
• Brewfile - homebrew initialization

git

• .git - prob don't touch this
• .gitconfig
• .gitconfig.local.template
• .gitignore
• .gitignore_global
• .gitignore.template

.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

This might include some EXPORTS, PATH construction, and sensitive aliases

Sensible OS X defaults

Mathias's repo should be consulted first / copied.

./.osx