mario does dotfiles

dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

This started from an adaptation of holman's dotfiles.

Now I am on the 2nd generation so I changed the approach completely to something more similar to xero's dotfiles. Basically keeping it super simple and using GNU stow for symlinking files.

instructions on how to setup this on a clean machine

clone https://github.com/marionzualo/dotfiles
install home-brew
install git brew install git
install zsh brew install zsh
install oh-my-zsh
change default shell to zsh (this is likely going to be handed by oh-my-zsh)
install tmux brew install tmux
install zsh-syntax-highlighting brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
install node brew install node
install pure - https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
install vim brew install vim
install vim brew install nvim
intall exuberant ctags brew install ctags
remap control key
install source code pro brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts && brew cask install font-source-code-pro
install the silver searcher brew install the_silver_searcher
install pasteboard brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
install gitsh https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh
install GNU stow brew install stow
cd ~/dotfiles; stow vim;
Install vim plugins with (:PlugInstall)
create ~/dotfiles/git/.gitgc/.gitconfig_machine with local details
mv ~/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig.old
cd ~/dotfiles; stow git;
mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.old
stow zsh
stow tmux

stow instructions

This is mostly copied from xero's dotfiles. Mostly so I can have a quick reminder on how stow works.

by default the stow command will create symlinks for files in the parent directory of where you execute the command. so my dotfiles setup assumes this repo is located in the root of your home directory ~/dotfiles. and all stow commands should be executed in that directory. otherwise you'll need to use the -d flag with the repo directory location.

to install most of my configs you execute the stow command with the folder name as the only argument.

to install my herbstluft theme greybeard use the command:

stow herbstluftwm

this will symlink files to ~/.config/herbstluftwm and various other places.

but you can override the default behavior and symlink files to another location with the -t (target) argument flag.

to install the ryu-login you need to execute the command:

stow -t / ryu-login

this will symlink the file to /etc/issue.

note: stow can only create a symlink if a config file does not already exist. if a default file was created upon program installation you must delete it first before you can install a new one with stow. this does not apply to directories, only files.

my overall setup

While this repo only deals with dotfiles management, it exists to support my development environment setup:

thanks

I forked Zach Holman's excellent dotfiles for the first generation of my dotfiles.