Klortho / dotfiles

.bashrc, .vimrc, etc.

My dotfiles

Resources / links

Here are some resources to check out, maybe someday:

• Sync your Preferences Across Multiple Computers with GIT
• https://dotfiles.github.io/
• awesome-dotfiles
• Mathiasbynens (legendary) dotfile for OS X

Bash startup scripts

See this post for a good, quick summary: Bash startup scripts on Linux and Mac OS X.

Two things determine what startup script get executed:

• Is the shell interactive or not? That is, are standard in/out tied to a terminal?
• Is it a login shell?

Typically, after you've logged into a machine and started up a windows manager, any new terminals you open are not login shells.

Login shells look for /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.bash_profile, and source the first one only.

Non-login shells source .bashrc.

Never put any commands that produce output in .bashrc! This causes ssh to break.

Mac OS X has a quirk in that the terminal program (and iterm, too) starts new shells as login shells. Fix by telling it to start new shells with /bin/bash.

.gitconfig

I have implemented a git nuke feature, which sends a repo working directory back to its pristine state (more or less). It uses custom git config data. There are three aliases:

• git nuke - to see a dry run of the changes that would be made. This is also useful as a general way to see what cruft is in your working tree
• git nukem - really do it
• git nonuke [opts] - manage a list of files that even this tool ignores. This is an alias for git config, and takes the same options. For example:
  • git nonuke --get-all - list all the nonuke files
  • git nonuke --add [file]
  • git nonuke --unset [file]

Here is how it works:

$ git nuke
DRY RUN. Use nukem to clean:       #=>  nothing to nuke

$ # Add a local settings file, not in the git repo; add it to .gitignore
$ touch settings-local.yaml
$ echo settings-local.yaml >> .gitignore
$ git add .gitignore && git commit -am 'add local settings to .gitignore'
[master 70924fc] add local settings to .gitignore ...

$ git nuke
DRY RUN. Use nukem to clean:
Would remove settings-local.yaml   #=>  uh-oh, it wants to get rid of this

$ git nonuke --add settings-local.yaml
DRY RUN. Use nukem to clean:       #=>  nothing to nuke

In the aliases for nuke and nukem, you have to use two fs in the options, because that makes sure that git cleans even clones of other repos, that are in subdirectories of this one. See this blog post.

Atom

Put these into ~/.atom/

• keymap.cson - stole from this gist.