Dotfiles

This is my collection of dotfiles, preserved here for all to see and enjoy. Feel free to copy anything you see here. It would be nice if you added a comment mentioning where you got it.

My environment relies on zsh, vim, and git.

Installation

Clone the repository to a directory on your machine. I like to use ~/.dotfiles.

git clone https://github.com/erynofwales/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Run the setup script.

cd ~/.dotfiles
./setup.sh

This script will symlink all the files in the directory to your home directory and initialize the various submodules (mostly Vim plugins).

Enjoy.

Shell Environment

As much as possible, I tried to keep these files as system agnostic as possible. I work on lots of different systems so having the ability to bring down my core environment and customize it is very useful. Most of the environment files have three levels:

1. The main file (e.g. .zshrc).
2. A system specific file whose name is generated by the uname -s command. So, these files have names like .zshrc.darwin and .env.linux. The system name is exported as $SYS in the .env script.
3. A machine specific file whose name is derived by appending .local to the main file's name (e.g. .zshrc.local).

Files 2 and 3 are sourced at the end of the main file, so any settings you add there will override those set in the main file.

License

Everything in this repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.