mastro's dotfiles

To use these settings with i3 (the best tiling window manager) you will need

• i3
• scrot
• rofi
• compton (optional)
• feh
• i3blocks
• ImageMagick
• gnome-terminal
• San Francisco Fonts (check https://github.com/AppleDesignResources/SanFranciscoFont)
• Font Awesome (check https://fontawesome.com/)

To use my .vim configuration to configure vim (the best editor ever) you will need vundle, so as to be able to use vim plugins, so get vundle now with

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

Install this dotfiles onto a new system

# define the alias "config" that is just git with some default parameters
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
# define the .gitignore file
echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore
# clone this repo
git clone --bare https://github.com/mastro35/dotfiles $HOME/.cfg
# checkout the actual content 
config checkout

The step above might fail with a message like:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
    .bashrc
    .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. The solution is simple: back up the files if you care about them, remove them if you don't care. I provide you with a possible rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}

Re-run the check out if you had problems:

config checkout

Set the flag showUntrackedFiles to no on this specific (local) repository:

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

From now on you can use config to add or update the dotfiles.

config status
config add .vimrc
config commit -m "Add vimrc"
config add .bashrc
config commit -m "Add bashrc"
config push

Install vim plugins

Now that you have installed every dot file, start vim and execute

:PluginInstall

this will install all the plugin you need for vim.