parkr / dotfiles

how I like things

# parkr does dotfiles, courtesy of tombell

~ is where the ♥ is

My dotfiles were originally a fork of @tombell's dotfiles, which were originally a fork of @holman's dotfiles.

Your dotfiles are you personalised configuration files for UNIX-like systems, they usually reside in your home (~) directory.

Like @tombell's and @holman's, my dotfiles are organised into topics (ruby, git, zsh etc). For more information about dotfiles and @holman's specifically check out his repo and blog post on the subject.

Install

• git clone git://github.com/parkr/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
• cd ~/.dotfiles
• make

The install rake task will symlink all the correct files from ~/.dotfiles to your home directory. You will want to configure and tweak everything inside the ~/.dotfiles directory though.

Components

Taken from @holman's, there are a few special files in the repository:

• bin/, anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and made available everywhere
• <topic>/*.zsh, any files ending with .zsh will get loaded into your environment
• <topic>/*.symlink, any files ending with .symlink will get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded in your home directory. These get symlinked when you run rake install
• <topic>/*.completion.sh, any files ended in completion.sh get loaded last so that they get loaded after we set up zsh autocomplete functions

Extras

There are a few things I use to make my life awesome. They're not a required dependency, but if you install them they'll make your life more awesome as well.

• If you want some more colours for things like ls, install grc: brew install grc
• If you want rvm or rbenv to manage your ruby installs, install either and you'll get the current ruby version in your prompt

Bug

Just open an issue and/or pull request.

Thanks

I originally forked @tombell's dotfiles, who originally forked @holamn's dotfiles, who originally forked @ryanb's dotfiles. So thanks to them.