don-smith/dotfiles

Config files for my Arch/Zsh system

Setup

Applying this configuration is simply the process of running a link script that symlinks these files into where Zsh expects them to be.

git clone https://github.com/don-smith/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
# In ./home/.zshenv, ensure DOTFILES is the path to this repo
./link

The link script:

• symlinks the dotfiles in ./home to ~
• symlinks the files in ./config to ~/.config

Structure

This configuration uses three Zsh startup files:

• ./home/.zshenv
  • Used for setting up environment variables.
  • Will source ./paths when logging in.
• ./home/.zprofile
  • Used for running commands and setting up functions.
  • Will source the files in ./functions when logging in.
• ./home/.zshrc
  • Used for initialising Oh-My-Zsh and creating aliases.
  • Will source ./aliases and the files in ./extras for each interactive terminal session.

The ./bin folder contains executable scripts and has been added to the $PATH.

npm packages

To install all global npm packages, run ./npmig. To install existing global packages to a new node installation using nvm:

nvm install v9.2.0 --reinstall-packages-from=v7.4.0