If you type rcup
from anywhere in termial it will copy alisaes of these files from /dotfiles folder to the root of your computer. So slick!
cd ~/
git clone [email protected]:luggageforward/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup
rcup
that's it.
Set zsh as your login shell:
chsh -s $(which zsh)
Clone onto your laptop:
git clone [email protected]:thoughtbot/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
(Or, fork and keep your fork updated).
Install rcm:
brew install rcm
Install the dotfiles:
env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup
After the initial installation, you can run rcup
without the one-time variable
RCRC
being set (rcup
will symlink the repo's rcrc
to ~/.rcrc
for future
runs of rcup
). See
example.
This command will create symlinks for config files in your home directory.
Setting the RCRC
environment variable tells rcup
to use standard
configuration options:
- Exclude the
README.md
,README-ES.md
andLICENSE
files, which are part of thedotfiles
repository but do not need to be symlinked in. - Give precedence to personal overrides which by default are placed in
~/dotfiles-local
- Please configure the
rcrc
file if you'd like to make personal overrides in a different directory
From time to time you should pull down any updates to these dotfiles, and run
rcup
to link any new files and install new vim plugins. Note You must run
rcup
after pulling to ensure that all files in plugins are properly installed,
but you can safely run rcup
multiple times so update early and update often!
Create a directory for your personal customizations:
mkdir ~/dotfiles-local
Put your customizations in ~/dotfiles-local
appended with .local
:
~/dotfiles-local/aliases.local
~/dotfiles-local/git_template.local/*
~/dotfiles-local/gitconfig.local
~/dotfiles-local/psqlrc.local
(we supply a blank.psqlrc.local
to preventpsql
from throwing an error, but you should overwrite the file with your own copy)~/dotfiles-local/tmux.conf.local
~/dotfiles-local/vimrc.local
~/dotfiles-local/vimrc.bundles.local
~/dotfiles-local/zshrc.local
~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs/*
For example, your ~/dotfiles-local/aliases.local
might look like this:
# Productivity
alias todo='$EDITOR ~/.todo'
Your ~/dotfiles-local/gitconfig.local
might look like this:
[alias]
l = log --pretty=colored
[pretty]
colored = format:%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%an%Creset
[user]
name = Dan Croak
email = [email protected]
Your ~/dotfiles-local/vimrc.local
might look like this:
" Color scheme
colorscheme github
highlight NonText guibg=#060606
highlight Folded guibg=#0A0A0A guifg=#9090D0
If you don't wish to install a vim plugin from the default set of vim plugins in
.vimrc.bundles
, you can ignore the plugin by calling it out with UnPlug
in
your ~/.vimrc.bundles.local
.
" Don't install vim-scripts/tComment (notice the username of the plugin is
removed)
UnPlug 'tComment'
UnPlug
can be used to install your own fork of a plugin or to install a shared
plugin with different custom options.
" Only load vim-coffee-script if a Coffeescript buffer is created
UnPlug 'vim-coffee-script'
Plug 'kchmck/vim-coffee-script', { 'for': 'coffee' }
" Use a personal fork of vim-run-interactive
UnPlug 'vim-run-interactive'
Plug '$HOME/plugins/vim-run-interactive'
To extend your git
hooks, create executable scripts in
~/dotfiles-local/git_template.local/hooks/*
files.
Your ~/dotfiles-local/zshrc.local
might look like this:
# load pyenv if available
if which pyenv &>/dev/null ; then
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
fi
Your ~/dotfiles-local/vimrc.bundles.local
might look like this:
Plug 'Lokaltog/vim-powerline'
Plug 'stephenmckinney/vim-solarized-powerline'
Additional zsh configuration can go under the ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs
directory. This
has two special subdirectories: pre
for files that must be loaded first, and
post
for files that must be loaded last.
For example, ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs/pre/virtualenv
makes use of various shell
features which may be affected by your settings, so load it first:
# Load the virtualenv wrapper
. /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
Setting a key binding can happen in ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs/keys
:
# Grep anywhere with ^G
bindkey -s '^G' ' | grep '
Some changes, like chpwd
, must happen in ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs/post/chpwd
:
# Show the entries in a directory whenever you cd in
function chpwd {
ls
}
This directory is handy for combining dotfiles from multiple teams; one team
can add the virtualenv
file, another keys
, and a third chpwd
.
The ~/dotfiles-local/zshrc.local
is loaded after ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs
.
Similarly to the zsh configuration directory as described above, vim
automatically loads all files in the ~/dotfiles-local/vim/plugin
directory. This does not
have the same pre
or post
subdirectory support that our zshrc
has.
This is an example ~/dotfiles-local/vim/plugin/c.vim
. It is loaded every time vim starts,
regardless of the file name:
# Indent C programs according to BSD style(9)
set cinoptions=:0,t0,+4,(4
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.[ch] setlocal sw=0 ts=8 noet
vim configuration:
- fzf 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 many kinds of tests from vim
- Set
<leader>
to a single space. - Switch between the last two files with space-space.
- Syntax highlighting for Markdown, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Elixir, more.
- Use Ag instead of Grep when available.
- Map
<leader>ct
to re-index ctags. - Use vim-mkdir for automatically creating non-existing directories before writing the buffer.
- Use vim-plug to manage plugins.
tmux configuration:
- Improve color resolution.
- Remove administrative debris (session name, hostname, time) in status bar.
- Set prefix to
Ctrl+s
- Soften status bar color from harsh green to light gray.
git configuration:
- Adds a
co-upstream-pr $PR_NUMBER $LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME
subcommand to checkout remote upstream branch into a local branch. - Adds a
create-branch
alias to create feature branches. - Adds a
delete-branch
alias to delete feature branches. - Adds a
merge-branch
alias to merge feature branches into master. - Adds an
up
alias to fetch and rebaseorigin/master
into the feature branch. Usegit up -i
for interactive rebases. - Adds
post-{checkout,commit,merge}
hooks to re-index your ctags. - Adds
pre-commit
andprepare-commit-msg
stubs that delegate to your local config. - Adds
trust-bin
alias to append a project'sbin/
directory to$PATH
.
Ruby configuration:
- Add trusted binstubs to the
PATH
. - Load the ASDF version manager.
Shell aliases and scripts:
b
forbundle
.g
with no arguments isgit status
and with arguments acts likegit
.migrate
forbin/rails db:migrate db:rollback && bin/rails db:migrate db:test:prepare
.mcd
to make a directory and change into it.replace foo bar **/*.rb
to find and replace within a given list of files.tat
to attach to tmux session named the same as the current directory.v
for$VISUAL
.
Thank you, contributors! Also, thank you to Corey Haines, Gary Bernhardt, and others for sharing your dotfiles and other shell scripts from which we derived inspiration for items in this project.
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