Dotfiles

My personal computers' dotfiles.

Dependencies

In order to be able to manage the dotfiles, you just need:

Git for cloning this repo (that usually comes built-in)
Stow for managing the dotfiles

Usage

1. Clone the repository in your home directory

Clone the repository in your $HOME directory, so it exists as a subdirectory of your $HOME directory:

cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/davidlj95/.files # repo will be in `$HOME/.files`

⚠️ It's important you clone it in your $HOME directory

Otherwise, you won't be able to easily symlink files into $HOME directory

2. Initialize submodules

Init the git submodules:

cd .files
git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Manage dotfiles

Each folder represents a collection of dotfiles for a given application.

Stow manages the dotfiles by creating symlinks for every file or directory inside the folder whose dotfiles are being activated into the parent directory (that's why we cloned inside $HOME).

Install a group of dotfiles

To install a group dotfiles (a directory inside this repo), use the following command when you're inside the repository:

cd $HOME/.files # ensure you're in the repository
stow directory

Where directory is the directory whose dotfiles you want to install.

🎉 Now files inside that directory are symlinked in your $HOME directory. For instance: if you stow foo, and there's a dotfile .bar inside of foo directory, now $HOME/.bar is a symbolic link to foo/bar.

Uninstall a group of dotfiles

Same procedure to uninstall but with the -D flag.

cd $HOME/.files # ensure you're in the repository
stow -D directory

Docs

Bash

A function exists to enable a selection of bash-it aliases and plugins

For fonts in powerline theme to work, install Powerline fonts

Shell

The shell directory contains configurations that are shell-agnostic. Should work with zsh and bash. In order to load them, bash and zsh configs try to source those files if present.

Zsh

Comes with Oh My Zsh configured, several plugins enabled & some custom plugins and themes (in zsh/.zsh-custom).

To see fonts properly when using powerlevel10k (the configured theme), check the guide on how to install them. You can also use the Powerline fonts if you prefer something else than Meslo font. I've used it and works too.

Developing

A Jetbrains IDE is used to manage the repository.

Shell files

Several built-in tools are provided to manage shell script files. However, some require enabling them and some require some tweaks (that can't be shared as project settings).

Formatting with `shfmt`

It uses the built-in settings for formatting shell files. But to do so, shfmt tool must be installed. Go to Editor -> Code Style -> Shell Script and look for the Shfmt formatter section to install it.

TODO

VIM configs based on https://github.com/amix/vimrc
SSH configs import
Custom VIM configs
Script to automatically install basic dotfiles (basic.sh)
Use dotdrop for more configurations

davidlj95/.files