About
This repository contains my personal dotfiles, which I use on unix systems of varying flavors, and on my Macs. 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.
Note however, that I do not make any particular effort to make this easy for others to use. I randomly move things around, add and remove Vim bundles, according to my needs. If you want to use these dotfiles, I would definitely suggest forking them to your own repo so you can selectively merge changes as you see fit. YMMV.
Compatibility
I am a Zsh user. This repo goes in conjunction with my
fork of oh-my-zsh. If you want to use my zsh setup, run
./install.pl zsh.
Using Bash does not need any external repos. Use ./install.pl bash to
install my Bash setup. I used Bash for many years, and those files are fairly
mature, but I am no longer paying a lot of attention to them. Note that the
default installer does not install the bash symlinks anymore, you have
to install 'bash' specifically!
I regularly use this setup with Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux systems. I have used it with FreeBSD in the past.
Some parts of the Bash, Zsh, 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.
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.
Shell colors
The colors in the shell prompts for both Bash and Zsh are currently set up assuming the terminal is using Solarized Dark as a color scheme. They may not look very good in other terminal setups.
The Zsh setup lets you pick from multiple prompts. Run prompt -l to see
them, and set what you like in ~/.zshrc.
Installation
umask 0022
git clone https://github.com/tangledhelix/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
To install my dotfiles as your dotfiles, you can create symlinks with
./install.pl all. If you do not run that command, everything will be
isolated inside of the ~/.dotfiles directory (or wherever you cloned it)
and will not interfere with your existing environment.
cd ~/.dotfiles && ./install.pl all
install.pl will ask you before overwriting any files that already exist.
You can also install subsets of the environment using one of the following.
./install.pl bash
./install.pl zsh
./install.pl vim
./install.pl git
Updating
I periodically change the Vim bundles I use. There are two update tasks for Vim. The first updates the bundles from their repositories.
./install.pl update:vim
The second cleans up any bundles which are no longer known. (Note that
update:vim will run the cleanup before doing the update step.)
./install.pl cleanup:vim
You can refresh the zsh environment with
./install.pl update:zsh