kewinwang / .dotfiles

dotfiles

This repository holds my configuration files so that I can clone them to other machines easily.

#Installation

git clone git://github.com/zan5hin/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Updating

There are several git submodules included in this configuration. On a new installation these submodules need to be initialized and updated.

$ cd ~/.dotfiles
$ git submodule init 
$ git submodule update 

It is also possible to use git pull to update the submodules.

$ cd ~/.dotfiles
$ git submodule foreach git pull origin master

#Setup

Homebrew

On those Mac OS machines where I install Homebrew I also edit /etc/paths to move the /usr/local/bin entry to the top of the list. This ensures that Homebrew-managed programs and libraries occur prior to /usr/bin and system-provided programs and libraries. The resulting /etc/paths files looks like this:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

zsh

For zsh configuration create the following symlinks:

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh ~/.zsh
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/zshenv ~/.zshenv
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/zprofile ~/.zprofile

Vim

For Vim configuration and use, create the following symlinks:

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc

Vim's backup and swap files are stored in ~/.tmp, so that directory must exist. To be sure run:

$ touch ~/.tmp

bash

For those machines where zsh isn't installed or won't easily work, create the following symlinks:

$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bash/bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bash/bashrc ~/.bashrc
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bash/bash_aliases ~/.bash_aliases
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bash/bash_history ~/.bash_history

Git

For Git configuration and global ignore files, create these symlinks:

$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/gitignore_global ~/.gitignore_global

For machines where Sublime Text 2 cannot be installed, link git/gitconfig_remote instead. This will use vimdiff as the merge and diff tool rather than ST2.

Mercurial (hg)

For Mercurial configuration and global ignore files, create these symlinks:

$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/hg/hgrc ~/.hgrc
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/hg/hgignore_global ~/.hgignore_global

TextMate (mate)

For TextMate 2 settings create the following symlink:

$ ln -s ~/.dotflles/textmate/tm_properties ~/.tm_properties

tmux (terminal multiplexer) configuration

For tmux configuration create this symlink:

$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/tmux/tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf

My tmux setup also uses tmux-powerline for the status bar. Add the tmux-powerlinerc to the home directory.

$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/tmux/tmux-powerlinerc ~/.tmux-powerlinerc

Sublime Text 2 (subl)

Install Package Control following the instructions here: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

For Sublime Text 2 settings, remove the User directory from ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages. Then add this symlink:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
$ ln -s ~/.dotfiles/sublimetext/User User

Finally, to enable the command line tool, subl, add this symlink:

$ ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl

##z To enable z directory function from https://github.com/rupa/z, source the z.sh script in the .zshrc file:

source ${HOME}/.dotfiles/z/z.sh