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dotfiles

My dotfiles, forked from the excellent Holman's dotfiles

install

• git clone git://github.com/kratob/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
• cd ~/.dotfiles
• rake install

The install rake task will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles, though.

It works a bit different to Holman's version:

• You need to include the dots (so it's .zshrc.symlink)
• If you put things in subdirectories, the directory structure (below the topmost) is kept. So the awesome/.config/awesome.symlink gets symlinked to ~/.config/awesome, but ~/.config itself is left alone.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run rake install.

thanks

I forked Zach Holman's excellent dotfiles, who in turn forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles.