fbcotter/dotfiles

Repository to allow quick and mobile environment set up on new machines.

Several of the dotfiles were copied from mathiasbynens/dotfiles.

Apart from being extremely custom, as everyone else's dotfiles are, I think you may find the ./copy_files.sh in many of the subfolders useful.

General Description

My preferred editor is vim, my preferred shell is fish (although I do have some bash settings), and I also like to use:

tmux (rather than screen)
latex
brew (one of my machines is a mac)
jupyter

You will see in many of my folders a script file called copy_files.sh. The purpose of this is to symlink dotfiles in my home directory (or wherever they are supposed to live) to my repo. The benefit of this is that if I make a change on one machine and push it to my github, I can then just pull it on the other machine and the dotfile is automatically updated.

Bash folder

Run ./copy_files.sh to automatically set up bash shell In here I have 10 files:

alias_vars_x Are machine specific aliases and enviornment variables
bash_aliases Are general aliases
bash_functions Are some general bash functions to make life easier
bash_profile My .bash_profile file. This loads in all of the other bash files
bash_prompt My .bash_prompt file
bashrc My bashrc file (I try to keep this one empty and have everything in bash_prompt)
copy_files.sh Symlinks all the bash files to the home directory. Also checks the machine name for which alias_vars_x file to use.

Brew folder

This was basically entirely copied from Mathias and hasn't changed much

Fish Folder

Run ./copy_files.sh to automatically set up fish shell

alias_vars_x Same as with bash, but fish style
config.fish Pretty minimal config.fish file. I use oh-my-fish to nicen up my prompt so make sure you install that
copy_files.fish Symlinks the alias_vars_x file, the config.fish file and the functions to the ~/.config/fish folder. It will call the install_omf.sh script if it detects that oh-my-fish is missing.
install_omf.sh Not thoroughly test script. Attempts to download and install oh-my-fish. If you are having problems with it, it's not difficult to visit the repo and do manually, I just wanted the fully automated approach.
functions/ A folder of some fish functions, in particular one to start the ssh agent.

Git Template

My git template folder. My .gitconfig and .gitignore are not in here, this was just for hooks.

Home

Run ./copy_files.sh to automatically link assortment of dotfiles Lots of config files that don't fit into a particular folder of their own. E.g.

.vimrc and .gvimrc
.ctags
.gitattributes and .gitconfig and .gitignore
.latexmkrc latexmk config file
.tmux.conf tmux config file
.wgetrc file
Others

Jupyter

Some jupyter settings. I don't have a copy_files.sh for these as I don't use jupyter that much.

Latex

Run ./copy_files.sh to automatically set up latex files A defs.tex and preamble.tex file. I have tried to make these as general as possible for my tex projects. Note that the copy_files.sh script will symlink both of these files to ~/mylatex. My ~/.vimrc file will then add this to the TEXINPUTS environment variable. That way, in my latex projects, I can have the simple header:

\documentclass{article}
\input{preamble}
\input{defs}
\begin{document}

\end{document}

Rather than having a gigantic preamble every time.

Repo List

A poorly maintained attempt at keeping track of what repos I have on my machines (in case one of them ever dies)

ssh

Run ./copy_files.sh to automatically set up ssh files A folder with my ssh config for my different machines. Again, these are symlinked.

fbcotter / dotfiles