Das .dotfiles

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Dotfiles are used to customize and automate your computer system. Of course, you must already know this and found yourself here, now, in the midst of your quest for the most powerful dotfiles of the realm. Your quest is not over, for this repo is surely not it. There's always another on the horizon.

Perhaps you haven't learned all the things yet:

Getting Started with .dotfiles

Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub

Managing Dotfiles Across Multiple Platforms

Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked

Install

git clone https://github.com/ggoldstone/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.

Edit 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 script/bootstrap.

what's inside

A work in progress as I figure out what I want to keep for myself.

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. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Thanks

• Joshua Rubin for planting the seed of dotfiles in my mind
• Zach Holman for wanting his dotfiles to work for everyone including Joshua.
• Fork all the things!