homedir

This repository contains the home directory dotfiles and customizations of Brandon Rhodes. You might also be interested in taking a look at his version-controlled .emacs.d directory at:

https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/dot-emacs

When I am setting up a shell account on a new machine, I check this homedir repository out into my new home directory and set it up like this (omitting the "ubuntu" step if I am on another operating system):

$ cd
$ git co https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/homedir.git
$ mv homedir/.[Xa-z]* homedir/* .
$ rmdir homedir
$ bin/,setup-ubuntu
$ bin/,setup-home-usr
$ bin/,setup-zsh

I carefully log in using ssh in another terminal window — to make sure that the dotfiles leave me able to connect — and then change my default shell to /bin/zsh with chsh and am off and running.

Note that many custom commands in ~/bin have names that start with a comma, as do most of my shell aliases. This unique leading character keeps them orthogonal from real system commands, preventing any future name collisions as new commands are invented in the Unix world. Plus, I can type a comma and then press Tab in my shell to see a list of all of my custom scripts.

I have made all of these dotfiles public so I can download them more easily, and so that anyone else who is curious can mine them for hints and tidbits of wisdom about smoothing away the rough edges of the Unix environment.

Enjoy, and please consider all of these files to be MIT-licensed: take whatever you can use, and good luck!

— Brandon Rhodes