Dotfiles

My custom Linux config files (aka dotfiles).

Environment:

Linux: Debian & Ubuntu
Shell: Bash

Install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/tbaecker/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
~/.dotfiles/bin/dotfiles

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

dotfiles is a simple script that shall help to keep the environment up to date. You can find this script in bin/.

Topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .bash will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

Components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy:

bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.
topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install

Vim

My vim comes with these plugins:

pathogen manage your runtimepath
syntastic syntax checking hacks for vim
tabular text filtering and alignment

Credits

While trying to get my dotfiles organized, https://dotfiles.github.io/ was really helpful to get me started.

From there I explored the plethora of dotfile repositories on github. I eventually ended up with the concept of "holman does dotfiles".

So this dotfiles repository is primarily based on the work of Zach Holman. Find the original at github: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles