These are files to configure a shell just the way I like it.
With appologies to Stanley Kubrick:
This is my prompt.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My prompt is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my prompt is useless. Without my prompt, I am useless...my prompt and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
My prompt has two lines. The first line tells me where I am. It includes
whoami, my hostname, my pwd, and my git branch, if I am within a
repository. The pwd contains a trailing slash and is colorized to match the
output of ls -FG which I alias to ls.
Incidentally, my computer is named leon, because it is a MacBook Pro. If convention holds, my next computer will be named upin.
The second line is where the magic happens. It is designed to mirror an irb
prompt. This may seem confusing, but I find it quite natural to switch
seamlessly between bash and irb.
My .vimrc is the product of 10 years of tweaking and tuning. Using it is like
having an extra arm. I like vim because it makes switching between my editor
and the command line seamless. If you prefer MacVim, I'd recommend carlhuda's
janus distribution.
If you managed to make it this far without ever reading In the Beginning was the Command Line, don't bother going any farther before you do. Seriously.
git clone git://github.com/sferik/dotfiles
cd dotfiles
bundle install
bundle exec thor dotfiles:install
Note that Terminal opens a login shell. This means ~/.bash_profile will get executed, not ~/.bashrc. To fix, simply add the following line to your ~/.bash_profile file: [[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc
These files are an amalgamation of wisdom collected over the years, the sources of which are too numerous to list. The idea to put them in a repository with an install script was taken from Ryan Bates.