iheitlager does dotfiles

dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine specific for working on OSX. My workflow is all about Homebrew, bash, iTerm2, vim and tmux.

I believe everything should be versioned and scripted. Your laptop is your personal workstation for which you have to tweak your personal workflow. As such I am a fan of the dotfiles philosophy. I therefore started with holmans dotfiles and created my own, although this is bash centric instead of zsh. This dotfile system is basic scripting with some topical modularization, no fancy agent convergence based config management. While working with vim and tmux, I found that iTerm2 really is a better match due to better mouse handling.

install

Run this:

# need to install homebrew on a clean laptop to make sure git is there
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
(echo; echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /Users/iheitlager/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

git clone [email protected]:iheitlager/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

NB: be sure to setup ssh and add your keys in your .ssh/config

There are two commands to run every now and then:

• dot to upgrade homebrew
• vimstall to do Vundle based vim packages

You have to run your npm, pip, etc updates yourself

topical

Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles. The actual dotfiles are symlinked from this folder during the bootstrap. This should remain on your system, and offers one place for versioning of your dotfiles, and for example allows .ssh to be excluded. Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. The complete dotfiles system consists of install time and runtime parts, in total four parts:

• symlinks to dotfiles
• topical extensions to be loaded by .bash_profile
• topical brew based installers during script\bootstrap (run these with dot)
• topical installers during script\bootstrap

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: bin/ will get added to your $PATH .bash_profile and anything in there will be made available everywhere.
• topic/bash_aliases: Any file named bash_aliases is loaded by .bash_profile and provides aliases available in your shell
• topic/bash_env: Any file named bash_env is loaded by .bash_profile and provides environment variables available in your shell
• topic/bash_completion: Any file named bash_completion is loaded by .bash_profile, is supposed to contain completion statements and is available in your shell
• topic/brew_packages: Any file named brew_packages is executed when running dot, this provides a way to create HomeBrew based installers. It is adviced to also put your package managers in here (like pip for python and npm for node
• topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when running script\bootstrap, this provides a way to create topical installers
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is such that you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles directory, but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These files get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Do not forget to never checkin secrets in any of these files, use ~/.localrc for this (sourced by .bash_profile)

credits

• Main inspiration comes from https://github.com/holman/dotfiles
• More about the dotfile stuff: https://dotfiles.github.io/
• Get more inspiration here: http://www.dotfiles.org/
• TMUX basics: http://mutelight.org/practical-tmux
• Got copy/paste to work: http://evertpot.com/osx-tmux-vim-copy-paste-clipboard/
• Solarized theme from http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
• The Silver Searcher