tparesi/dotfiles

shanson's dotfiles

These dotfiles set up Zsh, Vim, and tmux, and are also used to back up iTerm config and manage other program dotfiles, like asdf and git. Some of this configuration is borrowed from thoughtbot's dotfiles. thoughtbot's rcm is used to manage creating symlinks to the home directory.

Setting up a new computer

When setting up a new computer, the thoughtbot Laptop script should be used. The laptop.local script customization is managed in this repo. Clone this repo down to ~/dotfiles and manually copy laptop.local to ~/.laptop.local (ln -s ~/dotfiles/laptop.local ~/.laptop.local) and then run the Laptop script.

After the laptop script finishes, continue setting up the dotfiles, according to the instructions.

Installation

Set zsh as your login shell:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Then, clone or fork this repo into ~/dotfiles.

Install rcm:

brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
brew install rcm

Install the dotfiles:

env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup

Any files in this repo that are not prefixed with a . are automatically copied to the home directory when rcup is run. After this initial rcup, the RCRC ENV variable does not need to be manually specified.

For more information on what happens with rcup, see the thoughtbot dotfiles repo.