YADR: Yet Another Dotfile Repo
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Warning: These dotfiles are opinionated! 

This is a collection of best of breed tools from across the web,
from scouring other people's dotfile repos, blogs, and projects.

In some ways, this is an alternative to janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus), offering
many of the same plugins, with minor differnces. But it's also much more,
providing shell customizations (zsh), an irb replacement (pry) with customizations,
and osx settings that are developer friendly (such as fast key repeat),
and remapping your caps-lock to be Esc for vim.

The strongly held opinions expressed here:

  * OSX is the best operating system for development, but you have to tweak it slightly to be dev friendly.
  * ZSH is the best shell. I used bash for a long time and I have seen the light. Just
    its fuzzy typo autocompletion is worth the money and saves huge on keystrokes. 
  * oh-my-zsh is the best collection of plugins for zsh and reduces the switching cost from bash to zsh to one command.
  * MacVim is the best editor. You will type less and get more done. Vim should be used everywhere (irb, shell, mysql command line).
  * iTerm2 is the best terminal - it has splits and good full screen capabilities
  * Git is the best source control manager. There are probably better ones out there, but this one is mine

The ideas that guide this project:

  * All common commands should be two and three character mnemonic aliases - less keystrokes, RSI reduction
  * Most used vim commands should be under your fingertips (home row, prefer Shift to other command keys)
  * Avoid stressful hand motions, e.g. remap Esc to caps lock key, remap underscore to Alt-k in vim
  * Plugin architecture (using tpope's pathogen for vim)
  * Colors are _important_ - avoid stressful colors, use the well designed solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) colorscheme 
    for both vim and iTerm2

Before you start
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 * Remap caps-lock to escape: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/127591/using-caps-lock-as-esc-in-mac-os-x

 * Switch to zsh using oh-my-zh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh) in one easy step: 

        wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh

Submodules
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This project uses git submodules for some of its plugins. Please run:

    git submodule init
    git submodule update

To get all the current plugins. Over time, I plan to move all plugins into submodules.

Setup for ZSH
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I am now using ZSH as my default shell because of its awesome globbing
and autocomplete features (the spelling fixer autocomplete is worth the money alone). 

This setup assumes you use oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh)

Place this as the last line in your ~/.zshrc created by oh-my-zsh:

    source ~/.dotfiles/zshrc

Lots of things I do every day are done with two or three character 
mnemonic aliases. Please feel free to edit them:

    ae # alias edit
    ar # alias reload

Here are some of the customizations you get with this setup:

 * Vim mode
 * Bash style ctrl-R for reverse history finder
 * Fuzzy matching - if you mistype a directory name, tab completoin will fix it

Setup for Pry
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Pry (http://pry.github.com/) offers a much better out of the box IRB experience 
with colors, tab completion, and lots of other tricks. You should:

    gem install pry
    gem install awesome_print
    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/irb/pryrc ~/.pryrc
    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/irb/aprc ~/.aprc

Use pry

  * as irb: 'pry'
  * as rails console: script/console --irb=pry

Pry customizations:

 * 'clear' command to clear screen
 * 'sql' command to execute something (within a rails console)
 * all objects displayed in readable format (colorized, sorted hash keys) - via awesome_print
 * a few color modifications to make it more useable
 * type 'help' to see all the commands

Setup for Vim
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To use the vim files:

    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
    
The .vimrc is well commented and broken up by settings. I encourage you
to take a look and learn some of my handy aliases, or comment them out
if you don't like them, or make your own.

Some of the vim customizations include:

 * F - instantly Find definition of class (must have exuberant ctags installed)
 * B - show Buffer explorer
 * S - Show buffers in LustyJuggler (use asdfjkl home row keys to then select buffer)
 * T - Tag list (list of methods in a class)
 * K - git grep for the Kurrent word under the cursor
 * O - Open a GitGrep command line with a quote pretyped (close the quote yourself)
 * \m - show my Marks (set a mark with mX where X is a letter, navigate to mark using 'X). Uppercase marks to mark files, lowercase marks to use within a file.
 * Z - jump back and forth between last two buffers
 * Q - Quit a window (normally Ctrl-w,c)
 * \Q - Kill a buffer completely (normally :bw)
 * Ctrl-j and Ctrl-k to move up and down roughly by functions
 * vv and ss - vertical and horizontal split windows by double tapping
 * H,L,I,M - to move left, right, up, down between windows
 * Ctrl-\ - Show NerdTree (project finder) and expose current file
 * cf - Copy Filename of current file into system (not vi) paste buffer 
 * // - clear the search
 * ,, or z,, - use EasyMotion - type that and then type one of the highlighted letters.
 * Apple-k and Apple-K to type underscores and dashes, since they are so common in code but so far away from home row
 * yw - remapped to yaw, meaning yanking a word will yank the entire word no matter where your cursor is
 * W - write a file (instead of :w, saving you keystrokes for the most common vim operation)
 * gcc (comment a line) via tComment, and gcp custom alias to comment a paragraph
 * Cc - (Current command) copies the command under your cursor and executes it in vim. Great for testing single line changes to vimrc.
 * \ss to run specs, \ll to run a given spec on a line - using my vim-ruby-conque plugin (https://github.com/skwp/vim-ruby-conque)

Included vim plugins
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 * fugitive - "a git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal.." 
    * Try Gstatus and hit '-' on the screen to toggle files. Hit 'd' on the same screen for a diff.
    * Watch: http://vimcasts.org/blog/2011/05/the-fugitive-series/
 * GitGrep - much better than the grep provided with fugitive; use :GitGrep or hit K to grep current word



Setup for Git
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To use the gitconfig (some of the git bash aliases rely on my git aliases)

    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig

Some of the customizations provided include:

  * git l - a much more usable git log
  * git b - a list of branches with summary of last commit
  * git r - a list of remotes with info
  * git t - a list of tags with info
  * git nb - a (n)ew (b)ranch - like checkout -b
  * git cp - cherry-pick -x (showing what was cherrypicked)
  * git changelog - a nice format for creating changelogs
  * Some sensible default configs, such as improving merge messages, push only pushes the current branch, removing status hints, and using mnemonic prefixes in diff: (i)ndex, (w)ork tree, (c)ommit and (o)bject 
  * Slightly imrpoved colors for diff
  * git unstage (remove from index) and git uncommit (revert to the time prior to the last commit - dangerous if already pushed) aliases

OSX Hacks
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The osx file is a bash script that sets up sensible defaults for devs and power users
under osx. Read through it before running it. To use:

    ./osx

These hacks are Lion-centric. May not work for other OS'es. My favorite mods include:

  * Ultra fast key repeat rate (now you can scroll super quick using j/k)
  * No disk image verification (downloaded files open quicker) 
  * Display the ~/Library folder in finder (hidden in Lion)

Other recommended OSX tools 
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 * NValt - Notational Velocity alternative fork - http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/ - syncs with SimpleNote
 * Vimium for Chrome - vim style browsing. The 'f' to type the two char alias of any link is worth it.
 * QuickCursor - gives you Apple-Shift-E to edit any OSX text field in vim.

Credits
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I can't take credit for all of this. The vim files are a combination of
work by tpope, scrooloose, and many hours of scouring blogs, vimscripts,
and other places for the cream of the crop of vim and bash awesomeness.

COMING SOON
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 * Full migration to tpope's pathogen format (~/.vim/bundle) for all plugins
 * Better isolation of customizations in smaller chunks, maybe as plugins
 * Automatic setup script to symlink all dotfiles, or just some selectively 

For more tips and tricks
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Follow my blog: http://yanpritzker.com
