jclem/dotfiles

A collection of my dotfiles, including configuration for bash, zsh (via oh-my-zsh), and vim.

Features

Useful aliases

Directory traversal: .. = cd .. and ... = cd ../..
show/hide hidden Finder files with show and hide
git aliased to hub
git aliases: gi = git init
Rails aliases: rs = rails server
Rake aliases: rdbm = rake db:migrate
Quick python server: serve = python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Directory completion

c do<tab> = cd ~/code/dotfiles
h Doc<tab> = cd ~/Documents
c = cd ~/code
h = cd ~/

Functions

gac <commit-message>: Combines git add -A and git commit -m
gacp <commit-message>: Combines gac and git push <remote:origin> <remote-branch:master>
bak <file>: Copy file to file.bak
pview <file> <lexer>: Uses pygmentize and bcat to open syntax-highlighted file in web browser.

Vim Configuration

Nice vimrc
bundle management with Pathogen and git submodules

Vim bundles

Color-Sampler-Pack: https://github.com/vim-scripts/Color-Sampler-Pack
auto-pairs: https://github.com/jiangmiao/auto-pairs
NERDCommenter: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter
NERDTree: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
SnipMate: https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim (snippets in vim/snippets)
Surround: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

Requirements

git
hub*

* Optional. Remove alias git=hub from bash/aliases and zsh-custom/aliases.zsh if you don't want to use it.

Installation

jclem/dotfiles assumes that it will be kept in the ~/code/dotfiles directory. This location is important, as it symlinks configuration files in the home directory to files in this location.

Back up your own dotfiles, if needed.*
git clone git@github.com:jclem/dotfiles.git ~/code/dotfiles
$ cd ~/code/dotfiles
git submodule update --init
$ rake install

Any files that the installer overwrites will be moved to ~/jclem_dotfiles_backup where they can easily be recovered.

* jclem/dotfiles creates its own backup, but more than one use of rake install overwrites the original backup.

Customization

Bash

Most configuration is modularized. bashrc just sources files in the bash/ directory, including bash/aliases, bash/completions, bash/config, and bash/functions. Edit these files to customize.

Zsh

Zsh configuration is a little tricky, as I'm using oh-my-zsh, which is included as a git submodule. oh-my-zsh's custom directory is mostly ignored by git, so jclem/dotfiles keeps custom zsh files in its own zsh-custom directory.

Whenever rake install is run, the contents of this directory are copied to oh-my-zsh's custom directory. If you would like the bash and zsh configuration files to be the same, there is a rake task called copy_bash_to_zsh which copies bash/aliases and bash/functions to zsh-custom/aliases.zsh and zsh-custom/functions.zsh, respectively. Note that after doing this, one must again run rake install.

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