.files

Personal configuration and initialisation files for git, emacs and the shell environment. Suggestions for improvements are very welcome; I don't claim that the scripts included herein are production ready or even particularly useful.

Setting things up

Currently there is not an installation script (bootstrap.sh will eventually be this). The most straightforward way to get setup is to:

• backup any of the files .profile, .shrc, .bashrc, .inputrc, .gitignore and .gitconfig and the directories .profile.d and .emacs.d which exist in your ${HOME} directory,

• copy the files and directories with these names from the root of this repository into you ${HOME} directory (obviously you can neglect to copy any files you are not interested in, except for .profile and .shrc),

• change the user details in .gitconfig (you are not me, are you?).

Shells other than sh

I have aimed to keep things POSIX compliant in the hope of writing portable scripts. Please report any issues or enhancements on the GitHub bug tracker.

Unfortunately, different shells have different startup files, so it is not sufficient to just copy the files listed above into you home directory. If using the Bash shell then run the script bootstrap.sh. Hopefully methods for getting other shells to behave more like the POSIX sh will be added to this script in the future.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the many people whose dotfiles have inspired my own, including:

• Mathias Bynens

• Zach Holman

• Matt Graham

• Gianni Chiappetta

and many others who have distributed useful code snippets across the interwebs.