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PHILOSOPHY

Philosophical stuff about this dotfiles structure, decisions, etc..

Why?

I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.

You can also read my post on the subject.

Decisions

Do not install a lot of software

At first, this repo contained the homebrew installation and other stuff like that. I realized it would be better to split that into another repo, so this one would contain only the configs, and the other handles only software installation.

With that in mind, machine was born.

It's an Ansible recipe that can install a bunch of stuff, and you can comment out what you don't want. Works on both Linux and OSX.

Default EDITOR and PROJECTS

The default EDITOR right now is code, which is Microsoft's OpenSource Visual Studio Code editor. You can change that by adding your custom override to that variable in ~/.localrc.

PROJECTS is default to ~/Code. The shortcut to that folder in the shell is c. You can override this default in ~/.localrc.

Lots of editors

I use vim a lot, but I also use code, and used to use atom and sublime-text. So, the configs for all these editors are provided, you can use the one you like the most.

Topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Erlang" — you can simply add a erlang directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

Naming conventions

There are a few special files in the hierarchy:

  • bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
  • topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
  • topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
  • topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
  • topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.
  • topic/install.sh: Any file with this name and with exec permission, will ran at bootstrap and dot_update phase, and are expected to install plugins, and stuff like that.

ZSH plugins

This project uses the pure prompt (which is awesome!) and some other zsh plugins. All of them managed by Antibody, a faster and simpler Antigen-like program written in Go.

Compatibility

I try to keep it working in both Linux (no specific distro) and OS X, mostly because I use OS X at home and Linux at work.

The CI also is also ran on Linux and OSX.