This repository contains my personal dotfiles, which I use on unix systems of varying flavors. They are published here because I occasionally want to share them or use them as examples, and this is an easy way to do so. Feel free to use anything you find here.
I am a bash user; much of the shell environment may well work in other advanced Bourne derivatives such as zsh, but some of it will break.
I regularly use this setup with Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD systems.
Some parts of the Bash and Vim configs may assume you have 256 color support in your terminal. If you are using Apple Terminal before OS X Lion, you don't. Try iTerm2 instead.
http://sites.google.com/site/iterm2home/
I have written two blog posts on the subject of iTerm and iTerm2. Give them a read; color support is only one of several good reasons to switch.
http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2010/11/20/iterm-terminal/
http://tangledhelix.com/blog/2010/12/06/iterm2-iterm/
The colors in the prompt ($PS1) are currently set up assuming the terminal is using Solarized as a color scheme. They may not look very good in other terminal setups.
umask 0022
git clone https://github.com/tangledhelix/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
git submodule init
git submodule update
To install my dotfiles as your dotfiles, you can create symlinks with rake.
If you do not run the rake command, everything will be isolated inside of
the .dotfiles directory and will not interfere with your existing environment.
rake install
Rake will ask you before overwriting any files that already exist.
Occasionally I run into a system where rake isn't installed and I can't
easily install it. For those cases, I have install.sh, which does the
job, but isn't as graceful.
Because there are submodules, and some will end up generating vim docs "tags" files, you may end up seeing stuff like this, which gets annoying:
dan@mercury{0}[0]$ git status
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
# (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
# (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
#
# modified: vim/bundle/L9 (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/fuzzyfinder (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/nerd_commenter (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/snipmate (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/surround (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/unimpaired (untracked content)
# modified: vim/bundle/yankring (untracked content)
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
My ~/.gitconfig file sets up ~/.gitignore for global ignoring of certain
files. ~/.gitignore contains doc/tags and doc/tags-ja to prevent this
output from happening due to vim's tag files.
With recent versions of git, you can also use the --ignore-submodule flag
on git commands such as status.