.LAG's dotfiles (my.dotfiles)

Sensible developer defaults on OSX—inspired by others, like this guy: mathias's readme is awesome. go read it.

This repo is mostly for me but you're welcome to make suggestions. Mathias's is the project to fork. I'm mostly catching up to him, @cowboy, and @gf3. (And, this is a personal note: I do not know any of these people,in no way, shape or form, and I've never met them or spoken to them ever, all I know about them is the code they've shared on GitHub.)

install the neccessary apps

My basic setup is captured in install-deps.sh which adds homebrew, z, nave, etc.

private config

Toss it into a file called .extras which you do not commit to this repo and just keep in your ~/

I do something nice with my PATH there:

# PATH like a bawss
      PATH=/opt/local/bin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/.rvm/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/code/git-friendly
# ...

export PATH

Syntax highlighting

…is really important. even for these files.

Install Dotfiles Syntax Highlighting via Sublime Text 2 Package Control

Sensible OS X defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./.osx

Similar projects

I recommend getting a .jshintrc and .editorconfig defined for all your projects.

overview of files

Automatic config

• .ackrc - for ack (better than grep)
• .vimrc, .vim - vim config, obv.

shell environement

• .aliases
• .bash_profile
• .bash_prompt
• .bashrc
• .exports
• .functions
• .macros
• .zshrc
• .extras - not included, explained above

manual run

• install-deps.sh - random apps i need installed
• .osx - run on a fresh osx machine
• .brew - homebrew intialization
• .updates - homebrew initialization (formerly included meteor.js)

git, brah

• .git

• .gitattributes

• .gitconfig

• .gitignore

• .inputrc - config for bash readline

application version control

• .appversions - config for handling application version numbers in one place

Installation

git clone https://github.com/boycaught/my.dotfiles.git dotfiles \
&& cd dotfiles \
&& chmod a+x *.sh \
&& ./sync.sh

To update later on, just run the sync again.

NOTE: the 'APPVERSIONS' process should be run, manually, on a daily basis... or as possible.