shipstar does holman does dotfiles
How I set up a new Mac:
- Install
1Password
via the Mac App Store - Download homebrew
brew install git
git clone git@github.com:shipstar/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
- May require generating a new SSH key and adding to GitHub if you forgot to back it up
./script/bootstrap
- Restart the computer for things like scroll direction to take effect
I always have a few unpredictable issues to resolve after this as libraries are out of date, URLs have changed, etc, but this is a good starting point.
script/bootstrap
This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles
to your home directory.
Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles
.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink
,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
dot
is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X
defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot
from
time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find
this script in bin/
.
topical
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java
directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh
will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink
will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME
when you run script/bootstrap
.
what's inside
A lot of stuff. Seriously, a lot of stuff. Check them out in the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.
components
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
-
bin/: Anything in
bin/
will get added to your$PATH
and be made available everywhere. -
topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in
.zsh
get loaded into your environment. -
topic/path.zsh: Any file named
path.zsh
is loaded first and is expected to setup$PATH
or similar. -
topic/completion.zsh: Any file named
completion.zsh
is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete. -
topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in
*.symlink
get symlinked into your$HOME
. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory.To further nest symlinks into subdirectories under
$HOME
, use+
signs to signify additional directory delimiters. So for example, the filetopic/config+topic.symlink
would get symlinked to$HOME/.config/topic
when you runscript/bootstrap
.
thanks
Thanks to Zach Holman for his dotfiles, and Ryan Bates for inspiring Holman! (Maybe this repo should be "shipstar does holman does bates does dotfiles"?)