Dotfiles

Colourful & robust macOS configuration files and utilities.

Installation is done with simple command set (see “building system from scratch” for setup of new system):

curl --silent https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulmillr/dotfiles/master/install.sh | sh

Additional steps

1. Create ~/Developer/
2. Change default shell to ZSH: chsh -s /bin/zsh.
3. Install XCode.
4. Install Hermit font.
5. Change Terminal.app theme to terminal/paulmillr.terminal (Settings -> Profiles -> Press gear -> Import).

Features

Shell (zsh):

• NO DEPENDENCIES!
• Auto-completion
• Syntax highlighting
• Automatic setting up of terminal tab / window title to current dir
• rm moves file to the macOS trash
• A bunch of useful functions:
  • extract archive.tar.bz — unpack any archive (supports many extensions)
  • ram safari — show app RAM usage
  • openfiles — real-time disk usage monitoring with dtrace.
  • loc py coffee js html css — count lines of code in current dir in a colourful way.
  • ff file-name-or-pattern - fast recursive search for a file name in directories.
  • curl http://site/v1/api.json | json - pretty-print JSON
  • aes-enc, aes-dec - safely encrypt files.
• Neat git extras:
  • Opinionated git log, git graph
  • gcp for fast git commit -m ... && git push
  • git pr <pull-req> [origin] for fetching pull request branches
  • git cleanup — clean up merged git branches. Very useful if you’re doing github pull requests in topic branches.
  • git summary — outputs commit email statistics.
  • git release — save changes, tag commit. If used on node.js project, also push to npm.
  • git url - opens GitHub repo for current git repo.
  • git-changelog, git-setup etc.
• homesick / homeshick-compatible

Structure

• bin — files that are symlinked to any directory with binaries in $PATH
• etc — various stuff like macOS text substitutions / hosts backup
• git-extras — useful git functions, defined in home/gitconfig. Don't forget to change your git author to a proper name.
• home — files that are symlinked to $HOME directory
• sublime — sublime text 2 theme & settings
• terminal — terminal theme & prompt

Building system from scratch (reminder)

• Insert proper hosts from etc/hosts to system’s /etc/hosts.
• Clone this project (dotfiles RECURSIVELY --recursive) and run sh bootstrap-new-system.sh
• Download the Yosemite style Sublime Text icon (instructions on usage are included in download)
• Install Sublime packages with Package Control: "Seti UI"

License

MIT (c) 2016 Paul Miller (https://paulmillr.com)