.dotfiles

Config files for my environment.

Prerequisites

• GNU Stow (optional). Use stow to easily create links to these files in your home directory.

Installing

In your home directory, clone the repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:neapsix/.dotfiles.git

Then, create symlinks in your home directory to the files.

If you're setting up a Mac for the first time, run the macos_setup.sh script.

Create Symlinks Using GNU Stow

Use stow to easily create symlinks for mulitple files at a time. Just cd to the directory and use stow to link these files. By default, the command creates links one level up in the tree for all the files within the specified directory.

For example, in ~/.dotfiles/ run the following commands:

$ stow bash
$ stow nvim
$ stow vim
$ stow wezterm
$ stow zsh

to create ~/.bash_profile@, ~/.bashrc@, the ~/.config/nvim@/ directory, ~/.vimrc@, the ~/.config/wezterm@/ directory, ~/.zprofile, ~/.zshenv@, and ~/.zshrc@.

Create Symlinks Manually

If you don't want to use stow, you can also create the links manually. Using directories as in the previous example, from your home directory, run the following commands:

$ ln -s .dotfiles/bash/.bash_profile .bash_profile
$ ln -s .dotfiles/bash/.bashrc .bashrc
$ ln -s .dotfiles/nvim/.config/nvim .config/nvim
$ ln -s .dotfiles/vim/.vimrc .vimrc
$ ln -s .dotfiles/nvim/.config/wezterm .config/wezterm
$ ln -s .dotfiles/zsh/.zprofile .zprofile
$ ln -s .dotfiles/zsh/.zshenv .zshenv
$ ln -s .dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc .zshrc

Run the Setup Script (macOS)

Run the script to set up System Preferences and hidden settings for macOS:

$ ./macos_setup.sh

Acknowledgements

Credit to Brandon Invergo (Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles) and Jon Leopard (Dotfile Management With GNU Stow) for the helpful blog posts that taught me this approach. Credit to Quentin Giraud (aethys256/notes) for many of the macOS defaults tweaks.