Matt Ryan Does Dotfiles

A grossly opinionated set of system configurations, specific to Linux while aiming to run on macOS.

Install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/rattlion/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
make

Uninstall

cd ~/.dotfiles
make clean

Symlinks everything except templates to your $HOME dir. Templates are copied.

For example: ~/.gitconfig is copied from ~/.dotfiles/git/gitconfig.template.

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 installed.
• topic/*.template: Any files ending in *.template get copied into your $HOME. This is so you can keep the file versioned and prepared for other systems while maintaining unique settings across environments.

Thanks

Several years ago this project started out as a fork of Zach Holman’s excellent dotfiles which at the time was a fork of Ryan Bates’. I’ve been updating this set since 2012.