About these dotfiles

The Cardinal Rule of this Branch: Not a single line goes into any of these dotfiles that you don't understand completely.

The primary goal of these dotfiles is portability. That means a setup that "just works". And one that you can debug if needed. Try not to require anything that doesn't ship with the latest Ubuntu LTS release. Shoot for less than 5 minutes from the time of cloning until you're in business, guaranteed. You can get fancy and add the optional extras on your own machine.

Install

Perform all steps in order:

1. Install Git
2. Clone this repo.

• Use git clone --recursive to pull all submodules, or `git submodule update --init --recursive`` if you've already cloned.

3. Install Oh-My-Zsh (Optional, but highly encouraged)

• sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

4. Install dotfiles

• You can use either the rakefile or the bash script bootstrap to symlink files. Both scripts will give you the option to backup any files they try to clobber

  cd path/to/this/repo
  rake install
  

  or

  cd path/to/this/repo
  bash bootstrap
  

Optional extras

Now, if you have time:

1. Install a version of vim that was compiled with the +clipboard option, so that you can copy-paste to the system clipboard.

• sudo apt-get install vim-gnome if you're not installing YouCompleteMe or are using Debian 9. If installing YouCompleteMe on Debian 8, you probably have to build vim from source. Instructions here. You may have to set --enable-gui to gnome2 rather than gtk2 when using Debian 8.

2. Customize Terminal

• Install Solarized Colors for Terminal.

3. Install GNOME Tweak Tool

• sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
• Remaps Caps Lock to Ctrl

4. Install Ag

• sudo apt-get install silversearcher-ag
• If you have trouble installing Ag...

5. Install YouCompleteMe

• Rather than using Vundle, you can use Pathogen.

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe.git
cd YouCompleteMe
git submodule update --init --recursive
./install.sh --clang-completer

Done!