chiragraman does dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you configure your system. These are mine.

After spending hours configuring my machine to my liking, I realized that the files weren't organized in a way conducive to synchronizing them across machines. A quick gander through the interwebs for pointers led to my discovery of Github does dotfiles, and subsequently Zach Holman's sweet setup. This setup mimics his topical organization. Midway through the project I decided to jump ship to zsh. I'm currently using the Hyper terminal with Snazzy, running ZSH with Speaceship.

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew and Homebrew Cask to install things like Chrome, Atom etc. You might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
• 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 be executed during the bootstrap phase.

install

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/chiragraman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

dot_update is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X defaults, and so on. Occasionally run dot_update to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

thanks

I originally started by forking Zach Holman's repository, and made updates based on Carlos Becker's setup. There's a decent amount of code here that I've copied from other repositories as well, so it's pretty sweet to see people share their workflows!