dotfiles

This repository keeps the dotfiles I use to make my terminal look nice and pretty. Mainly these consist of customizations to Vim.

Installation

• Clone the thing somewhere

cd ~/Documents
git clone https://github.com/nrodrigues/dotfiles.git

• Fetch submodules

cd ~/Documents/dotfiles
git submodule init
git submodule update

• Link the files into your home directory

cd ~
ln -s ~/Documents/dotfiles/vimrc .vimrc
ln -s ~/Documents/vim .vim

• Import one of the terminal color schemes into Terminal.app

  • They're in terminal/colors/solarized

• Install one of the powerline patched Inconsolata fonts available in https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts

  • I highly recommend InconsolataDz
  • You might also want to reduce Terminal.app's smoothing heavy text rendering:
    • defaults write com.apple.Terminal AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

What's in it

• Basic vimrc from https://github.com/amix/vimrc

  • A lot of cool shortcuts and basic settings that should be on by default
  • This file is portable, in the sense that it does not depend on any plugins
    • Sources .vim/vimrc if the file exists, where plugin settings should reside

• Extended vimrc in .vim/vimrc

  • Enables pathogen and settings for the rest of the plugins

• vim-pathogen from https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

  • Autoloads all plugins in .vim/bundle

• ctrlp.vim from https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim

  • Ever used Cmd+T in TextMat/Sublime? It's the same thing.

• vim-airline from https://github.com/bling/vim-airline

  • Cool statusline

• vim-fugitive from https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

  • Git integration

• osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized from https://github.com/nrodrigues/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized

  • Solarized colorscheme for OS X's Terminal.app

• vim-colors-solarized from https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized

  • Solarized colorscheme for Vim