/dotfiles-1

My mostly shell-related config files--.bashrc, .bash_profile, .inputrc

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About

Config files for various tools I use, or have used in the past, such as fish, git, jed and Sublime Text.

It's very unlikely that anyone will want to use this directly; the more interesting directories are:

  • fish - configuration and startup files for fish shell.
  • bin - mostly git commands that are a bit too long or complicated to be embedded into .gitconfig.
  • templates/hooks - git hooks

Note that there's a lot of bash config files scattered about the place--I used to use bash but have now switched to fish, but am keeping it around for the memories, such as the list of operating systems that have been "supported" at some point in the past...

Prerequisites

fish

OS X

$ brew install fish

Don't have homebrew?

If you want to install into /usr/local ...

See http://brew.sh.

If you want to install somewhere else ...

See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Installation#untar-anywhere-and-then-symlink-the-brew-command-elsewhere

Note that the binaries are symlinked into whatever directory brew is installed into. (So if brew is symlinked into /usr/local/bin, then all executables brew installs will be symlinked into there as well.) This can be useful if you want to install brew in your home directory, but symlink binaries into /usr/local/bin.

Other Platforms

See http://fishshell.com/.

PHP (Optional)

Probably best to install from source.

You'll probably want to enable a few extensions when you ./configure:

$ ./configure --with-curl --with-zlib --with-openssl --enable-zip

Installation

$ cd $HOME
$ git clone git@github.com:ithinkihaveacat/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
$ cd $HOME/.dotfiles
$ ./update
# On OS X, logout and login again

Note that update may be destructive—if you have "unmanaged" files in locations such as ~/Library/KeyBindings or ~/Library/Fonts, they will be wiped out!

It's safe to run update multiple times. (It's idempotent.)

Manual Changes

All Platforms

Sublime Text

Install Package Control. The actual packages to install are stored in [etc/subl/Package Control.sublime-settings](Package Control.sublime-settings); Package Control will pick this up and install the appropriate packages as soon as it itself is installed.

OS X

Configure Terminal

Import [etc/Solarized Dark.terminal](etc/Solarized Dark.terminal).

"New Terminal at Folder"

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services > File and Folders

  • Enable "New Terminal at Folder"

Ubuntu

Emacs Keybindings

Get emacs keybindings across all gtk apps (source):

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

Ubuntu Terminal

Change Colour Scheme

Run the following gconftool commands to set Solarized colours correctly:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/7734960

Change Font

Use "Profile Preferences" to change the default font.

Make Alt Available

Open "Keyboard Shortcuts" and unselect "Enable menu access keys". (Otherwise Alt is used for accessing the menu.)

Author

mjs@beebo.org