Dotfiles

Undergoing major changes: I’m in the process of reworking this repository to make it easier to setup OS X and Linux. Check out the new dotfiles repo for a simpler way of managing the dots.

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What’s in the box?

Dotfiles helps you get your dev environment up and running.

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The following repositories configure Emacs, ZSH, and Vim:

• spacemacs.d contains my Spacemacs customisations.
• prezto configures ZSH.
• vimrc sets up Vim for those times when Emacs isn’t available.

And there’s pretty good support for the following languages:

• Clojure
• Go
• Erlang
• Javascript via nvm
• Haskell
• Python via pyenv
• Ruby via rbenv

Each feature/language is grouped using Ansible roles, and can be found in the roles directory.

All the dotfiles that get linked into $HOME are grouped by language or feature where possible, and failing that lumped into the dotfiles role.

Roles look at the vars kept in group_vars for things like packages to install, and versions of certain runtime environments.

Getting Started

You’ll need the following dependencies before getting started.

• Ansible
• Homebrew
• Xcode

At the time of writing it’s possible to get all three like so:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

xcode-select --install

Installation

With the dependencies above installed you can clone the repo, and use Ansible to get everything setup!

git clone git://github.com/jcf/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles

bin/install

# This needs root access and will ask for your password
bin/sudo-install

Keeping up to date

To update the installed packages and tools you can use bin/update, which internally runs all Ansible tasks with the tag update.