These are my dotfiles, meticulously slimmed down after having accumulated way to much cruft over the last years. I'm pretty happy with the amount of files right now. There might be some nuggets for you in here.
Files worth looking at:
aliasesfor.. well, shell aliases.gitconfigfor a sensible, non-typing-intensive git configurationvimrc&vim-configfor loads of freshly cleaned up, modularized & mostly commented vim goodness.
You probably don't wanna grab all of those dotfiles and install them in your home directory. Dotfiles grow over time and are very personal. So the following instructions are mostly for me to remember. :)
This repo uses rcm by thoughtbot (Tutorial). Install that tool via your package manager, then
git clone https://github.com/jonathanewerner/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
rcup -v # optionally dry run with "lsrc" beforeAdd new rc files to the dotfiles directory with mkrc <dotfile>.