Paul's dotfiles
- I maintain this repo as my dotfiles, but I'm keenly aware people are using it for theirs.
- You're quite welcome to make suggestions, however I may decline if it's not of personal value to me.
- If you're starting off anew, consider forking mathias or alrra. paulmillr and gf3 also have great setups
Setup
I would not suggest you just wholesale use my dotfiles. But there's a few files where there's great goodies you can steal.
shell
This repo contains config for fish and bash. As of 2016, I primarily use fish shell, but fall back to bash once in a while. The bash and fish stuff are both well maintained. If you're using fish you'll want to do a git submodule update --init.
my favorite parts.
aliases and functions
aliases.fish and functions.fish and fish/functions/*.aliases and .functions
So many goodies.
The "readline config" (.inputrc)
Basically it makes typing into the prompt amazing.
- tab like crazy for autocompletion that doesnt suck. tab all the things. srsly.
- no more that says "Display all 1745 possibilities? (y or n)" YAY
- type
cat <uparrow> to see your previous cats and use them.
- case insensitivity.
- tab all the livelong day.
.gitconfig
- err'body gotta have their aliases. I'm no different.
Moving around in folders (z, ..., cdf)
z helps you jump around to whatever folder. It uses actual real magic to determine where you should jump to. Seperately there's some ... aliases to shorten cd ../.. and .., .... etc. Then, if you have a folder open in Finder, cdf will bring you to it.
z dotfiles
z blog
.... # drop back equivalent to cd ../../..
z public
cdf # cd to whatever's up in Finder
z learns only once its installed so you'll have to cd around for a bit to get it taught.
Lastly, I use open . to open Finder from this path. (That's just available normally.)
overview of files
shell environment
.aliases, .bash_profile, .bash_prompt, .bashrc, .exports, .functions
manual run
setup-a-new-machine.sh - random apps i need installedsymlink-setup.sh - sets up symlinks for all dotfiles and vim config..macos - run on a fresh mac os setupbrew.sh & brew-cask.sh - homebrew initialization
git, brah
Sensible OS X defaults in .macos
Mathias's repo is the canonical for this, but you should probably run his or mine after reviewing it.
~/bin
One-off binaries that aren't via an npm global or homebrew. git open, subl for Sublime Text, and some other git utilities.
2020 update
Rust folks have made a few things that are changing things.
- most folks know
bat as a cat replacement
- https://github.com/dandavison/delta is a bit nicer than the diff-so-fancy project that i started. :/
- https://github.com/eza-community/eza is better
ls and gets all the trapd00r/LS_COLORS stuff etc.
- https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy interactive git thing. deprecates my
git recent script. and probably some other things.
Dotfiles mgmt todo
Also I'd like to migrate to using one of these:
- homesick or
- https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
- https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
- https://www.chezmoi.io/
also interested in https://github.com/dandavison/open-in-editor
SSH authenticate with security key
(presumably you've already upgraded from passwords to using ssh public key authentication.. but this is an alternative if you want the security key challenge)
Been doing this for a while.. forgot how i learned it and nobody has it documented that I can find...
Run on client machine:
ssh-add -L | grep ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@
This outputs a ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 key for me. I know it's registered for my hardware security key.
Put that in whatever authorized_keys of your remote host. That's it.
