Steve's dotfiles

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!

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

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

shell environment

• .aliases
• .bash_profile
• .bash_prompt
• .bashrc
• .exports
• .functions
• .zshrc
• .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 and vim config.
• .osx - run on a fresh osx setup
• brew.sh & brew-cask.sh - homebrew initialization

git

• .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:

# The top-most paths override here.
      PATH=/opt/local/bin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/.rvm/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/code/git-friendly
# ...

export PATH

Sensible OS X defaults

Mathias's repo is the canonical for this, but you should probably run his or mine after reviewing it.

./.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 Highlighting via Package Control