My Dotfiles (and nix expressions)

I don't use these anymore as I've switched to NixOS. Please see nixdot for what I use now.

These are the dotfiles I use to customize Arch Linux (mostly). I used to use something called homeshick which linked files into my home but I've since opted to use an arguably simpler approach.

The .profile.d has been divided up into many files named by feature and contained within similarly named directory, eg:

.profile.d/zsh contains the configuration directly related to zsh. In there there are several files named after what they configure, eg path.zsh sets up the path. Those, by the way, always run first. aliases.zsh sets up some aliases. Should be pretty straightforward.

See .zshrc for the ordering and how it runs. There's also hostname based config files.

Emacs

See README.org for emacs configuration - handled through the nix package manager. Emacs configuration is untangled from that org file. Install it like this:

nix-env -iA nixos.my-emacs

or if not on NixOS:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.my-emacs

Default packages

So even if above would give me my emacs with the packages and config I want, I prefer installing it through the "meta" package default-packages - like this:

nix-env -iA nixos.default-packages

or if not on nixos:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.default-packages

Installation

First off, this is only for zsh since that's the shell I use. So it wont' work with anything else. In addition, off the top of my head, these tools are required for it to work reasonanly well:

fzf - the fuzzy finder, https://github.com/junegunn/fzf (usually installable through package manager)
direnv - unclutter your .profile, https://github.com/direnv/direnv (on arch can be installed through yaourt for example)

Then git clone something like this:

$ git clone --bare https://github.com/johnae/dot.git ~/.cfg
$ cd ~
$ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME GIT_DIR=$HOME/.cfg git checkout
$ GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME GIT_DIR=$HOME/.cfg git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

If there are any complaints like files already being there, this should help:

$ mkdir -p .cfg-backup && GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME GIT_DIR=$HOME/.cfg git checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -I{} mv {} .cfg-backup/{}

Above backs up any preexisting files to .cfg-backup. After all this, your home can be managed using:

home add
home pull
home push

Etc. It's just git with some special env vars for management. It's all in the repo files.

Local settings

The file ~/.defaultrc is always loaded first, after that ~/.localrc will be loaded if present. That may override settings in .defaultrc. ~/.localrc is not checked in and shouldn't be.

License

This code is released under the MIT License