dotfiles

My personal OSX installation system.

Description

I was reading Getting Started With Dotfiles and was inspired to create a configuration that would automate the setting up of a new OSX machine.

I wanted to learn from the ground up so I simplified the process outlined by Lars Kappert, copying files and directories rather than adding the sym links.

My simpler structure has a .bash_profile which contains the functions and alias rather than them being in separate files.

Added some improvements from codeinthehole/osx_bootstrap.sh.

Installation

Install XCode first from the App Store so Homebrew can access the libraries.

Some apps don't have a cask and so still need to be installed by hand, including Twitter.

Personalise the name and email fields in the git/.gitconfig file.

Add or remove applications in the install.sh/brew install and brew cask install tasks.

Available brew applications can be found by running brew search (app-name) or brew cask search (app-name)

Run the following commands and respond to prompts.

cd ~

git checkout https://github.com/russellf9/dotfiles.git

cd dotfile

sh install.sh

Update 9 June 2020

I'm in the process of bootstrapping a new Mac Book and am trying to update the scripts etc first.

• Use NVM rather than n (and don't install using brew)
• Add an improvement so we check for the existence of Homebrew before installing it.
• Make a note to install X-Code manually first
• Update the bash_profile with new snippets etc...
• Update links and information
• Oh-My-Zsh
• add zsh to brew
• [ ] Update Hammerspoon file
• See if the copy part for the Hammerspoon file works (if not make script)
• Update Karibiner-Elements Key Binding file if possible. (Is in .keyboard location)
• Vimrc
• and other Vim files and folders
• Update .gitconfig? (see later)
• Remove Qudini specific stuff
• Add global NPM modules to script
• Remove .idea folder (run script first to test how the script works)
• Make script to copy Hammerspoon file (see hyper-apps.sh)

Notes:

The default OSX comes with versions of git and bash and the brew cask install task updates them.

Text-Editing Rocket

I've set up my machine with to use a whole set of text editing features from Turn Your Keyboard into a Text-Editing Rocket. So I've added Hammerspoon and Karabiner-Elements to the brew task in the shell script. Also a hyper-apps.lua file which contains my App shortcuts for Hammerspoon.

Summary of shortcuts which will be installed

• l - List in long format, include dotfiles
• ld- List in long format, only directories
• week - Get week number
• open_bash - Will open the .bash_profile
• reload_bash_profile - Refreshes the Bash profile without opening a new Terminal window
• mk - Create a new directory and enter it
• fs - Determine size of a file or total size of a directory
• manpdf - Open a terminal manual page as a PDF - manpdf ls
• updateApps - Update App Store apps
• delete_all_downloads - Deletes all files in ~/Downloads/
• empty_trash - Empties the trash

Links

• garystevens - dotfiles

• using-git-and-github-to-manage-your-dotfiles

Caveats

The script has only been partially tested and this is very much a version 1!

Feel free to fork and comment or raise issues.

Contact

• email: russell@factornine.co.uk
• twitter: @russellf9