netzfisch / dotfiles-old

My personal dotfiles!

netzfisch does also dotfiles

These dotfiles personalize my system, but feel free to fork them. Originally I cloned them from thoughtbot/dotfiles, who focus mainly at ruby development with tools like vim, tmux and git. But meanwhile I customised for my needs to use with ubuntu/lubuntu and integrate with Ethan Schoonover solarized-theme for Xfce4-Terminal and VIM.

Heads-up: If you run into trouble concerning terminal colors, check this excellent post for a general overview - how things suppose to work!

Differently from thoughtbot I track my customisations (files with .local-extension) also in git. That way ALL my configurations are tracked and I keep easily up with the orginal fork by doing:

git remote add upstream [e-mail]:thoughtbot/dotfiles.git
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/master

See the unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub and why you want to track down you dotfiels and to get started with a bootstrap!

Install

Set zsh as your login shell:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Fork or clone onto your box:

git clone git://github.com/netzfisch/dotfiles.git

Than install:

cd dotfiles
./install.sh

This will create symlinks for config files in your home directory.

Make your own customizations

Put your customizations in dotfiles appended with .local:

• ~/.aliases.local
• ~/.gitconfig.local
• ~/.gvimrc.local
• ~/.tmux.conf.local
• ~/.vimrc.local
• ~/.vimrc.bundles.local
• ~/.zshrc.local

What's in it?

vim configuration:

• Ctrl-P for fuzzy file/buffer/tag finding.
• Rails.vim for enhanced navigation of Rails file structure via gf and :A (alternate), :Rextract partials, :Rinvert migrations, etc.
• Run RSpec specs from vim.
• Set <leader> to a single space.
• Switch between the last two files with space-space.
• Syntax highlighting for CoffeeScript, Textile, Cucumber, Haml, Markdown, and HTML.
• Use Ag instead of Grep when available.
• Use Exuberant Ctags for tab completion.
• Use GitHub color scheme.
• Use Vundle to manage plugins.

tmux configuration:

• Improve color resolution.
• Remove administrative debris (session name, hostname, time) in status bar.
• Set prefix to Ctrl+a (like GNU screen).
• Soften status bar color from harsh green to light gray.

git configuration:

• Adds a create-branch alias to create feature branches.
• Adds a delete-branch alias to delete feature branches.
• Adds a merge-branch alias to merge feature branches into master.
• Adds an up alias to fetch and rebase origin/master into the feature branch. Use git up -i for interactive rebases.

Shell aliases and scripts:

• b for bundle.
• g with no arguments is git status and with arguments acts like git.
• git-churn to show churn for the files changed in the branch.
• m for rake db:migrate && rake db:rollback && rake db:migrate && rake db:test:prepare.
• mcd to make a directory and change into it.
• rake is zeus rake if using Zeus on the project in current directory.
• replace foo bar **/*.rb to find and replace within a given list of files.
• rk for rake.
• rspec is zeus rspec if using Zeus on the project in current directory.
• tat to attach to tmux session named the same as the current directory.
• v for $VISUAL.

Credits

Thanks to thoughtbot and the contributors.

These dotfiles are free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.