shipstar does holman does dotfiles

How I set up a new Mac:

1. Install 1Password via the Mac App Store
2. Download homebrew
3. brew install git
4. git clone [email protected]:shipstar/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

• May require generating a new SSH key and adding to GitHub if you forgot to back it up

5. ./bootstrap.sh
6. 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I always have a few unpredictable issues to resolve after this as libraries are out of date, URLs have changed, etc, but this is a good starting point.

./bootstrap.sh

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 ./bootstrap.sh.

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 file topic/config+topic.symlink would get symlinked to $HOME/.config/topic when you run ./bootstrap.sh.

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"?)