Note, this repository is no longer actively maintained.

~/.dotfiles

This repository contains dotfiles that I use, as well as a system for installing and keeping them up to date. You are welcome to use this too, and I try to make that easy!

Key Points

zsh for main shell
Don't try and add too much high-level magic, just reduce the sharp edges and pain points the Linux environment has (ie, Make It All Work The Way I Want It To)
Unobtrusive, opt-in automatic updates.
Backwards compatibility is good, but flawless backwards compatibility isn't a goal.

System Requirements

A Github account
Linux, OS X or FreeBSD with git & zsh installed

Installation

wget -O ~/.zshrc https://raw.github.com/alexjurkiewicz/dotfiles/master/zshrc && exec zsh -il

Then you can:

Create your local CONFIG file.
Install/update all other dotfiles in the respository using dotfiles-install.
Receive new updates with dotfiles-update.

Uninstallation

Delete ~/.zshrc and ~/.dotfiles/.
If you installed the other dotfiles in this repo you'll need to remove them by hand.

Tell me more about the zshrc highlights

Selects prompt colour schemes based on hostname (home, work, unknown, plus red for root sessions)
Extra keyboard navigation shortcuts that I've picked up elsewhere over the years
Hostname autocomplete entries are passed through to remote hosts. Super useful when bouncing around servers!
ssh-agent interface improvements. Run ssh-agent to create an initial ssh-agent process on a server. Run ssh-agent later to reconnect to the same agent.
Prompt, window title and screen/tmux title handling. Prompt includes git information when you're inside a git repository.
A whole bunch of aliases, prettiness, easter eggs, etc

Tell me more about the other dotfiles

These other files are shorter and easier for you to understand at a quick glance.

screen and tmux should look and behave similarly. In particular, tmux has screen's shortcut keys for all the commands I regularly use.
vim gets syntax highlighting support for a number of sysadminey file formats that aren't included by default.
vim config subscribes to the One True Indent Style of 4-space tabs.
git has some one-char aliases.

Tell me more about the automatic updates

A simple process.

git fetch runs in the ~/.dotfiles repository a maximum of once per day.
If there are pending updates, you are prompted on shell start.
The file 'MAP' stores a mapping of repository files to real locations, and is used by the dotfiles-install command.

Tell me more

Web: https://github.com/alexjurkiewicz/dotfiles

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