devalias does dotfiles

(Originally forked from holman/dotfiles)

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

I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read my post on the subject.

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.
• Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew Cask to install: things like Chrome and 1Password and Adium and stuff. Might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
• 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. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.
• topic/*.anti files will be bundled during antigen startup

What about my environment vars?

• Stash your environment variables in ~/.localrc. This means they'll stay out of your main dotfiles repository (which may be public, like this one), but you'll have access to them in your scripts.

Install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
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/.

Then you may want to run ~/.dotfiles/script/install, or manually run appropriate install scripts, I tend to like to start with:

# Check latest python/ruby/node versions + update appropriate vars, then run these
~/.dotfiles/ruby/install.sh
~/.dotfiles/python/install.sh
~/.dotfiles/node/install.sh

You might want to setup GPG commit signing for git.. this isn't automated yet..

• https://github.com/pstadler/keybase-gpg-github
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/setup-gpg-to-sign-commits-within-sourcetree-765397791.html
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Why-is-quot-Enable-GPG-key-signing-for-commit-quot-is-greyed-out/qaq-p/249852

Improvements

• Could see what is done in https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
• Ability to install 'feature sets' (eg. dev machine)
• Checkout asdf instead of rbenv/etc?
  • https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
  • https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby
  • https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs
  • https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python
• https://github.com/tj/n ?

Bugs

I want this to work for everyone; that means when you clone it down it should work for you even though you may not have rbenv installed, for example. That said, I do use this as my dotfiles, so there's a good chance I may break something if I forget to make a check for a dependency.

If you're brand-new to the project and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository and I'd love to get it fixed for you!

Thanks

I forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of my changes and tweaks inspired me 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.

See Also

Other things by me

• https://www.devalias.net/ (source)
  • My Blog
• https://github.com/0xdevalias (profile source)
  • My GitHub Profile
  • My Repos
    • chrome-* (Chrome Extension) repos
    • poc-* (Proof of Concept) repos
• https://github.com/0xdevalias/dotfiles (this repo!)

  • devalias does dotfiles

• https://github.com/0xdevalias/chrome-NewWindowWithTabsToRight (Announcement Blog, Chrome Webstore)

  • Create a new window from the tabs to the right of the currently selected tab.

• https://github.com/0xdevalias/userscripts

  • My user scripts to add functionality to various sites around the web (that were too small for me to bother turning into a full-fledged Chrome extension)

• https://github.com/0xdevalias/awesome-gmail-filters

  • Awesome list of Gmail filters and related resources

• My Homebrew Contributions
  • Homebrew/homebrew-core PRs
  • Homebrew/homebrew-cask PRs
  • Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions PRs
  • etc
• Probably a lot more around the net that I haven't thought to link to here.. hope you find something cool/useful out there!