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The Setup

Introduction

This file takes a page out of the book of Hardcore Freestyle Emacs, in which a single org-file can be tangled to create all the necessary dotfiles required for my everyday computer usage.

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How to use these files

My dotfiles setup uses a slightly different setup than most peoples’.

Instead of a repo full of configuration files that people can put into place, my setup consists of a number of org-mode files that contain source code in them. Using Emacs they are then ”tangled” to produce specific files. For example, the zsh.org file can be tangled to produce the .zshenv, .zshrc and other ZSH-related configuration files.

So how would you use this?

I include the bin/tangle script, which invokes Emacs in such a manner to produce the files a particular org file would produce. Generally if you want to actually use these, you wouldn’t have to do that because I provide a Makefile that will perform the tangling for you. So generally you could do:

git clone https://github.com/dakrone/dakrone-dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./bootstrap-packages.sh # see caveats below
make

# And then, if you wanted to symlink the files to be "installed"
make install # or `make force-install` to overwrite files

When an update is posted, I usually do:

cd ~/dotfiles
make

And since the installation consists of symlinks, there is no install needed. Makefile will only regenerate the config files for files that have changes.

Caveat

The only caveat to this is the bootstrap-packages.sh file, because this installs the files necessary for tangling, therefore it needs to be runable directly from the repo. It can be regenerated however, from bootstrap.org.

Bootstrapping machines

ZSH Configuration

Git Configuration

Tmux Configuration

Emacs Configuration

ESVM configuration

Redshift configuration