AJ's dotfiles

These dotfiles are a set of configuration files for macOS and Linux, that make my life in front of the keyboard just a little bit easier.

dotfiles are like a programmer's toolbox.

I am using macOS Monterey 12.x and my preferred Linux distributions are Debian and Ubuntu 22.04.

For more information on dotfiles, checkout dotfiles.github.io

Installation

Run the following commands in your terminal. It will prompt you before it does anything destructive. Check out the Rakefile to see exactly what it does.

git clone [email protected]:AJ-Acevedo/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
rake install

After the installation completes, open a new terminal window to see the changes take effect.

NOTE: There are additional installer scripts in the ~/.dotfiles/init directory that can be run as well.

Updating and adding VIM plugins

To update the VIM plug-ins, run the following commands from the .dotfiles root directory

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

When adding new VIM plug-ins, be sure to add them as git submodules

git submodule add [email protected]:scrooloose/nerdtree.git

Features

• Tab auto-completion for Git and Grunt JS
• Custom list of git config aliases and configurations
• Add a Git repo's branch name to the PS1 prompt with red, yellow, and green status indicators: 'user@hostname cwd (git_branch • )$ '
• Matching TextMate and vim themes
• vim customization

Note

All of the .dotfiles are symbolically linked from .dotfiles to the home directory via the Rakefile. Any of these files can also be manually linked using ln -s ~/.dotfiles/ansible.cfg ~/.ansible.cfg

Uninstall

To remove the dotfile configs, run the following commands.
Be certain to double check the contents of the files before removing them so you don't lose your custom settings.

unlink ~/.bash_profile  
unlink ~/.bashrc  
unlink ~/.gemrc  
unlink ~/.gitignore  
unlink ~/.irbrc  
unlink ~/.railsrc  
unlink ~/.vim  
unlink ~/.vimrc  
rm ~/.gitconfig  
rm -rf ~/.dotfiles  

Then open a new terminal window to see the changes take effect.

Feel free to clone, modify, share, and use these dotfiles as your own.

License

Copyright (C) 2013 - 2022 AJ Acevedo

Author

AJ Acevedo

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