Objective

Provide quick and easy startup process for getting preferences onto new machine.

Startup

1. Clone this repo into $HOME directory

   • git clone [email protected]:bittelc/.dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

2. To get zsh profile working correctly (dependent on hardcoded ".dotfiles" directory; install zsh; symlink .zshenv;)

   1. Install zsh (brew install zsh)
   2. ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/.zshenv ~/.zshenv
   3. Install Powerline fonts
   4. Modify iTerm profile to use Powerline fonts
      1. Preferences => Profiles => Text
      2. Font and Non-ASCII Font should be modified to use "14pt Meslo LG S DZ Regular for Powerline"

3. To get iTerm preferences working correctly (iTerm preferences => load preferences from hardcoded .dotfiles/ directory)

4. Git

   1. ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/.global_gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
   2. ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/.gitignore_global ~/.gitignore_global

5. Vim

   1. Update Vim to 8.0+
   2. Download and install vim-pathogen
   3. ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
   4. Symlink Pathogen directory: ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
   5. Init all submodules in this repo: .dotfiles$ git submodule update --init --recursive
   6. Update all submodules in this repo: .dotfiles$ git submodule update --recursive --remote

6. Setup all your other good shit

   1. Gregory Colbert screensaver
   2. BetterTouchTool
   3. 1Password

Adding Vim Plugins

To add a plugin to VIM (via Pathogen):

1. git clone to the usual location (~/.vim/bundle) which is a symlink to this repo's vim/bundle directory.
2. Rather than git add . this new bundle: git submodule add <[email protected] url> vim/bundle/<plugin name>
   • Eg. git submodule add [email protected]:fatih/vim-go.git vim/bundle/vim-go
3. git commit -am "Add <plugin> as submodule for Vim"

Known ToDo's

1. Provide better startup instructions
   • Download iTerm, zsh, BetterTouchTool