jonathan-s / dotfiles

Dotfiles for my computer

Jonathan's dotfiles

This repo is indebted to https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles, as it is a fork from that repo.

This repo has added the following extra things.

• Python scripting to make it easier to add extra stuff if you want to avoid bash.
• Support for .zsh instead of bash.
• Svorak! (swedish dvorak)

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Installation components

The following components exist

• ./brew.sh - Installs all brew packages. Make sure that you've got brew installed first!
• ./setup.sh - Sets up python environment etc so that you can run invoke.
• ./macos - Run this if it's on a clean install.

Once you've run setup.sh you can also run the python invoke commands.

• inv setup - Copy all application specific configuration files to correct place
• inv bootstrap - Copy all configuration files to home.
• inv backup - will backup the application configurations files to dotfiles.

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/jonathan-s/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source setup.sh

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Add custom commands

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Jonathan Sundqvist"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[e-mail]"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

Install Homebrew formulae

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./brew.sh

Some of the functionality of these dotfiles depends on formulae installed by brew.sh. If you don’t plan to run brew.sh, you should look carefully through the script and manually install any particularly important ones. A good example is Bash/Git completion: the dotfiles use a special version from Homebrew.

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Big thanks to the original Author

Mathias Bynens

Thanks to…

• @ptb and his macOS Setup repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Cătălin Mariș and his dotfiles repository
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Sindre Sorhus
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Kevin Suttle and his dotfiles repository and macOS-Defaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.macos
• Haralan Dobrev
• Anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion