Hadi's dotfiles

Preparation

Change Shell

chsh -s /bin/bash

Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

RVM

curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

Add the following to ~/.extra

# RVM
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

NVM

Installation and Updating

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you do not want or need. Do not blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/hadibadjian/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update:

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/hadibadjian/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,.osx,LICENSE-MIT.txt}

To update later on, just run that command again.

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing takes place.

Here is an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Add custom commands without creating a new fork

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you do not want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="User Name"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="user@example.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository.

Sensible macOS defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

./.macos

Install Homebrew formula

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formula (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./brew.sh

Sublime Packages

I found these packages highly useful. Simply install the Package Control for Sublime using the following command or proceed with the installation described here:

Package Control Installation

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = 'eb2297e1a458f27d836c04bb0cbaf282' + 'd0e7a3098092775ccb37ca9d6b2e4b7d'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

Useful Packages: AdvancedNewFile, AlignTab, All Autocomplete, ApplySyntax, BracketHighlighter, Case Conversion, Cucumber, Gherkin (Cucumber) Formatter, GitGutter, MarkdownEditing, MarkdownTOC, Pretty JSON, RSpec, SideBarEnhancements, Swift, Theme - Spacegray

You may find these MarkdownEditing User Settings user settings helpful.

Some of the functionality of these dotfiles depends on formulae installed by brew.sh. If you don’t plan to run brew.sh, you should look carefully through the script and manually install any particularly important ones. A good example is Bash/Git completion: the dotfiles use a special version from Homebrew.