michaelzaslavsky/dotfiles

My configuration files which I synchronize between machines

dotfiles

Introduction

This repository serves as my way to help me set up and maintain my Linux. It takes the effort out of installing everything manually. Everything needed to install my preferred setup of Xubuntu is detailed in this readme. Feel free to explore, learn and copy parts for your own dotfiles. Enjoy!

Installation

Clone the repository to your computer. My path recommendation is ~/.dotfiles.

git clone https://github.com/MichaelZaslavsky/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Add symbolic links to the .bashrc, .vimrc, .tmux.conf files and its related files.

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bashrc/.bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bashrc/.bash_aliases ~/.bash_aliases
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.profile ~/.profile
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc/*.vim ~/.vim/plugin
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc/UltiSnips/* ~/.vim/UltiSnips/
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/pythonx/snippet_helpers.py ~/.vim/pythonx/snippet_helpers.py
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/pythonx/global_extra_conf.py ~/global_extra_conf.py

Tools and dependencies

bash

bash-it

bash-it is a collection of community Bash commands and scripts. Includes autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom function, and more.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it.git ~/.bash_it
Run `~/.bash_it/install.sh`
Reload bashrc by `source ~/.bashrc`

thefuck

thefuck is a manificent app, that corrects errors in previous console commands.

pip install --user thefuck

Global search

A great code-searching tool is the silver searcher (ag "{text to search}").

sudo apt install silversearcher-ag

tmux

tpm

Tmux Plugin Manager.

sudo apt install tmux
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

• Start tmux
• Launch tmux and hit C-a :source-file ~/.tmux.conf or C-a + r to reload tmux (Note C-a is my configured tmux prefix).
• Hit C-a I to fetch any plugins.

powerline

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts

Make sure python is installed and follow those steps:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
pip install powerline
pip install --user powerline-status
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
mkdir ~/.fonts
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.fonts/
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts/
mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

After the installations, a restart to the terminal emulator will probably be required. Starting tmux should then display a pretty and helpful powerline.

vim

Vim is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program.

vim-plug is my Vim Plugin Manager.

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Open the .vimrc file and install its plugins:

vim ~/.vimrc
:PlugInstall

Complete the YouCompleteMe plugin installations:

sudo apt install cmake
cd ~/.vim/plugged/YouCompleteMe
python3 install.py

Complete the fzf plugin installations:

sudo apt install fzf && fzf

fonts

• Download a Nerd Font
• Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts
• Run fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache