dotfiles

Probably you should check out the README if you care for much detail.

Caution this will overwrite any existing bash, vim, and other configuration that you have, in various places, e.g. .bashrc.

To bootstrap a new machine with this configuration:

which apt-get && apt-get install git-core make python python2.7 ;
git clone https://github.com/samba/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && make dotfiles

On a Mac you will need to install XCode first.

Additional usage

Possibly you may want one of these two modes:

make dotfiles  # installs just the dotfiles
make apps      # installs just the apps

For more options, try make help.

Settings Applied by these Dotfiles

• A simple, colorful, and semantically expressive prompt
• Lots of shell aliases, adding desired features (e.g. colored diff)
• Some handy shortcuts functions, e.g. http, calc
• Automatic handling of ssh-agent
• Automatic inclusion of various PATH extensions and auto-completion
• A screen config that leverages built-in features for usable experience
• Suitable integration between these above (particularly bash, vim, and screen)
• Automatic generation of an SSH key if needed
• Some .ssh/config for compression and socket multiplexing
• Some git aliases and usability improvements.
• A Python usercustomize.py with a colored prompt
• Lots of tweaks for macOS user experience

Note: a variety of macOS settings are automatically tuned during the apps phase. This process will terminate any running Chrome, Safari, and various other apps, due to actively changing settings. Unless the preferences file gets changed, this should only happen once.

Prompt Format

The command prompt this installs displays several components:

• Timestamp colored by last command exit code
• Background jobs
• Working directory basename
• Git status (if present)
• Kubernetes cluster context (if present)
• Short prompt on separate line, colored by last command exit code

Screenshot:

Vim configuration

Several important features for my workflow

• Minimal use of third party plugins, but automatically installed where needed
• Lots of filetype autodetection
• Sensible tab/space controls
• Line numbers
• Code folding
• A sensible netrw configuration for project/dir navigation
• Autocompletion via ctrl-X omnifunc menu
• Autocompletion toggled via \C
• Buffer navigation shorthand (\n, \p)
• Tab navigation: (\tn, \tp, \tex)
• Comment flipping: \/
• Makefile calls: \m
• Various other shorthands…

More Apps from the AppStore

Additional tools I find useful…

• Xcode (Note this is probably required first before this Makefile will work.)
• Postico
• Slack
• Evernote
• Skitch
• Pocket
• Kindle
• Pixelmator
• The Unarchiver
• Emphetamine
• Cinch
• Trello
• MindNode 5
• LastPass