sjs's config (dotfiles)

These are my personal *nix config files, hand-crafted since around 2004 when I started by pilfering everything I could find on mailing lists and blogs. They work great on both Linux and macOS, with more server-ish stuff on the Linux side and desktop-ish stuff on the macOS side.

After zsh (big time zsh hipster) this is the first thing I set up in my shell environment on a new machine, along with ~/bin.

what've we got here?

• zsh: custom prompt with git integration, extensive aliases, lots of nitpicky tweaks like subword navigation excluding / for easy subpath traversal
• $EDITOR: vim and emacs configs, though the emacs one is fairly dated
• git: enhanced diffing, signed commits, pre-commit hooks
• ruby: rbenv integration, IRB customizations
• screen: yep I'm old, no tmux here
• iOS simulator stuff: device control utilities via devicectl.sh (from Gui Rambo)

setup

All files in this repo are symlinked to ~/.filename. Any existing files are backed up to ~/original-dot-files/ before linking so you won't lose anything, though it is up to you to merge the changes if you care.

# symlink all the files in this directory
# (excluding init.sh, Brewfile, and zsh directory)
./init.sh

There's also a Brewfile with stuff that I usually want for general shell usability, along with ruby and iOS dev. I don't recommend using this without customizing it.

brew bundle install

git aliases

These short aliases make git really easy to use in your shell:

Making changes:

• a - git add
• c - git commit
• chp - git cherry-pick
• co - git checkout
• b - git branch
• m - git merge
• f - git fetch
• t - git tag

Viewing changes:

• d - git diff (working tree changes)
• dc - git diff --cached (staged changes)
• ds - git diff --stat (summary)
• s - git status -sb (short status)

Commit log:

• gl - Fancy graph log with colors and relative dates
• glo - git log --oneline --decorate
• gls - git log --stat

Stashing:

• st - git stash
• stl - git stash list
• stp - git stash pop

Custom scripts: See ~/bin for these ones.

• rmb - git remove-merged-branches (custom command)
• gup - git update (custom command)

other aliases

• be - Bundle exec
• doc - docker-compose
• u/uu/uuu - Navigate up 1-3 directories
• myip - Get your public IP using icanhazip