dotfiles

Create symlink to the dotfiles:

ln -s ~/dotfiles/vim/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/dotfiles/git/.gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
ln -s ~/dotfiles/tmux/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
ln -s ~/dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc ~/.zshrc

zsh theme

The "pure" zsh theme needs to first be installed with
npm install --global pure-prompt

Change your default shell to zsh

chsh -s /bin/zsh

OSX specific

Install reattach-to-user-namespace
brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Use Homebrew vim brew install vim and brew link vim

Set up your global gitignore

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

Colorscheme.

Vim uses the gruvbox colorscheme. The same colorscheme for iterm2 is available here: https://github.com/herrbischoff/iterm2-gruvbox