z does dotfiles

What you got ?

zsh / vim / tmux / python

install

git clone https://github.com/zubinmehta/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles

Run this before anything else:

script/pre

Run this:

script/bootstrap

To install scripts:

script/install

once

To run (install) scripts only once: Sometimes, I wanted to run a particular install script only once (YouCompleteMe install script for example) as it takes a lot of time and I happen to run script/install often

script/once

script/once is just like script/install except that its just a different namespace. It is exactly like script/install except it looks for once.sh in your topical directories

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 script/bootstrap.

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

thanks

Inspired from [holman/dotfiles] (http://github.com/holman/dotfiles/)