there's no place like ~

These are dotfiles - a combination of the work of many others with my tweaks.

Dotfiles are personalized configuration files for UNIX-like systems, they usually reside in your home (~) directory.

Like several others [@parkr|@tombell|@holman|@cowboy], my dotfiles are organized into modules (macos, git, zsh etc). For more information about dotfiles and @holman's specifically check out his repo and blog post on the subject. Read more about oh-my-zsh at repo.

Install

• git clone git://github.com/jdmacleod/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
• cd ~/.dotfiles
• rake install

The install rake task will do the work to set up any needed software and symlink all the correct files from ~/.dotfiles to your home directory. You will want to configure and tweak everything inside the ~/.dotfiles directory though.

Components

Taken from @holman's, there are a few special files in the repository:

• bin/, anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and made available everywhere
• <module>/*.zsh, any files ending with .zsh will get loaded into your environment
• <module>/*.symlink, any files ending with .symlink will get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded in your home directory. These get symlinked when you run rake install
• <module>/*.completion.sh, any files ended in completion.sh get loaded last so that they get loaded after we set up zsh autocomplete functions

Extras

• If you want some more colors for things like ls, install grc: brew install grc
• If you want rvm or rbenv to manage your ruby installs, install either and you'll get the current ruby version in your prompt

Bugs

These are mainly intended for personal use but suggestions are appreciated. Just open an issue and/or pull request.

Thanks

Starting with @parkr, traced changes, additions and suggestions back to @holman @ryanb @cowboy and @mathiasbynens. Thanks to @robbyrussell for ohmyzsh. We all pay it forward.