Dotfiles

Using This Environment

These dotfiles are intended to live within ${HOME}/dotfiles, although this can be configured in .profile and configure.sh.

Initial Configuration

The script configure.sh attempts to install a set of frequently used packages (for Ubuntu/Debian) and creates the proper dotfile links to files in this repository.

Shell Configuration Files

Both zsh and bash shell dotfiles are designed share as much commonalaties as possible and provide a similar environment on Ubuntu, Debian, OSX, Red Hat, and Solaris systems.

The central dotfile that ties everything together is .profile, which both .zshrc and .bashrc are symlinked to. This file determins the operating system and shell and then sets additional configuration depending on what the system environment is.

For zsh zim is used for shell customization
For bash bash-completion is enabled when available
Shell specific configuration is done in zshrc and bashrc
Additional shell/OS shared configuration may be done in vars, functions, and local files and can overrides zim and bash-completion

Dot Files

List of dotfiles and short description

.Xdefaults
- configuration for X client applications
.bashrc
- symlink to bashrc
.gpg_config
- configuration file for GPG and SSH
.muttrc
- configuration file for mutt
.profile
- central zsh and bash configuration
.tmux.conf
- configuration file for tmux
.vimrc
- configuration file for vim
.zshrc
- configuration file for zshrc
aliases
- common shell aliases
bash_colors
- ANSI colors for bash shell
bashrc
- configuration file for bash shell
functions
- common shell functions
vars
- common shell variables
local
- local configuration files not stored on github

Dot Dirs

List of dot directories and short description.