dotfiles

Nick's dotfiles on macOS

Install

Clone onto your laptop:

git clone git://github.com/nduckwiler/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles

(Or, fork and keep your fork updated).

Install rcm:

brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
brew install rcm

Install the dotfiles:

env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup

After the initial installation, you can run rcup without the one-time variable RCRC being set (rcup will symlink the repo's rcrc to ~/.rcrc for future runs of rcup). See example.

This command will create symlinks for config files in your home directory. Setting the RCRC environment variable tells rcup to use standard configuration options:

• Exclude the README.md and LICENSE files, which are part of the dotfiles repository but do not need to be symlinked in.
• Give precedence to personal overrides which by default are placed in ~/dotfiles-local
• Please configure the rcrc file if you'd like to make personal overrides in a different directory

Update

From time to time you should pull down any updates to these dotfiles, and run

rcup

to link any new files and install new vim plugins. Note You must run rcup after pulling to ensure that all files in plugins are properly installed, but you can safely run rcup multiple times so update early and update often!

Make your own customizations

Create a directory for your personal customizations:

mkdir ~/dotfiles-local

Put your customizations in ~/dotfiles-local appended with .local:

• ~/dotfiles-local/gitconfig.local
• ~/dotfiles-local/vimrc.local

For example, your ~/dotfiles-local/gitconfig.local might look like this:

[alias]
  l = log --pretty=colored
[pretty]
  colored = format:%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%an%Creset
[user]
  name = Samurai Jack 
  email = jack@thepast.com

Show me some cool examples

Fish aliases and functions:

• g with no arguments is git status and with arguments acts like git.