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.
I am a Zsh user. This repo goes in conjunction with my fork of oh-my-zsh.
Using Bash does not need any external repos. I used Bash for many years, and those files are fairly mature, but I am no longer paying a lot of attention to them.
I have used this setup with macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux systems. Today I primarily use macOS and Linux (Debian and Redhat families).
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.
The colors in the Zsh shell prompts may assume a certain color scheme in the terminal; they may look odd in other schemes.
I used to use the script noted below. I haven't been lately and it may be it no longer works properly. I've been using ansible-playbook and the code under the ansible directory lately. YMMV.
The Ansible setup requires a hosts inventory file. That is not present in this
repository as it's specific to me. See Ansible's documentation for info about the
format of the inventory file. (There is more than one available format.)
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
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