smashwilson / dotfiles

Settings and setup.

smashwilson's dotfiles

dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/smashwilson/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory, install Ansible, and run a playbook that sets up some most-used tooling. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

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/*.bash: Any files ending in .bash get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.bash: Any file named path.bash is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.bash: Any file named completion.bash 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. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

thanks

Because thanks obeys the transitive property:

This started as a fork of @holman's dotfiles. I've kept the structure, but changed everything back to bash from zsh, and switched to using Ansible for the installation because Ansible is rad.

Holman forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of his changes and tweaks inspired him to finally roll my own. But Ryan's dotfiles were an easy way to get into bash customization, and then to jump ship to zsh a bit later. A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from Ryan's original project.