• Dotfiles

My personal config files and utils.

I've been using (and changing) these since about 2012-13. It's unlikely that anyone can fork this and find it useful, but there might be odd things here that you can copy out into your setup.

The most interesting thing is probably [[./emacs.d.symlink/init.org][init.org]], which contains my emacs config.

If you're interested in emacs / linux / dotfiles etc. I occasionally share stuff at https://www.mattduck.com.

• How to install

1. Clone and update the submodules:

   #+BEGIN_SRC sh $ git clone https://github.com/mattduck/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles $ cd ~/dotfiles $ git submodule update --init --recursive #+END_SRC

2. Do a one-off run of ~bin/,dotfiles-install~. This creates symlinks from ~~/.FILENAME~ to ~$DOTFILES/FILENAME.symlink~. Any existing files or directories are backed up to ~~/dotfiles_backup/$(date)~.

3. Source ~activate.sh~ in your bashrc. This script will:

   • Add ~$DOTFILES~ to your env: this is a path to the dotfiles directory.

   • Add ~$DOTFILES/**/bin~ to your ~$PATH~.

   • Source ~$DOTFILES/**.dot.xx.sh~ in numeric order - eg. ~foo.dot.10.sh~ would be sourced before ~bar.dot.20.sh~. Anything without a number (eg. ~baz.dot.sh~) will be sourced last.

4. I don't have a graceful/up-to-date way to install all the packages I use right now, so certain scripts/functions/aliases could fail. These will have to be installed manually.

5. In emacs you just have to ~M-x install-package~ on anything that's missing and not automatically installed by ~use-package~.

6. In vim, do ~:BundleInstall~ to install packages.

** MacOS - $PATH issues

Tmux always runs as a login shell, which means /etc/profile gets read. On some OS X releases, this will run a utility called ~path_helper~, which will always prepend a set of directories to your $PATH /after/ ~.bashrc~ has run.

To disable this, you can reset your $PATH as part of ~.bashrc~, and run the dotfiles setup afterwards:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh

.bashrc

if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then PATH="" source /etc/profile fi source ~/dotfiles/activate.sh #+END_SRC

See https://superuser.com/questions/544989/does-tmux-sort-the-path-variable/583502#583502 for more info.

• Thanks

This takes inspiration from (and outright copies) ideas and configuration that I've seen from friends and colleagues, [[https://emacs.london][emacs.london]], and various blogs/websites/videos/conferences etc.

Special mention to [[https://github.com/holman/dotfiles][Zach Holman]] (where I copied the symlink and sourcing structure), [[https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/homedir][Brandon Rhodes]] (for the idea of prefixing your scripts and commands with a comma), and [[https://github.com/sachac/.emacs.d/][Sacha Chua]] (for the idea of compiling ~init.el~ with org-mode, and aggregating a ton of useful emacs content).