Linux

Homeshick

Use homeshick to manage the dotfiles in the homedirectory:

git clone git://github.com/andsens/homeshick.git $HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick

Enable homeshick script by sourcing it:

# from sh and its derivates (bash, zsh etc.)
printf '\nsource "$HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick/homeshick.sh"' >> $HOME/.bashrc
# csh and derivatives (i.e. tcsh)
printf '\nalias homeshick source "$HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick/bin/homeshick.csh"\n' >> $HOME/.cshrc
# fish shell
echo \n'source "$HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick/homeshick.fish"' >> "$HOME/.config/fish/config.fish"

Go to the repos directory and clone the dotfiles repo:

cd $HOME/.homesick/repos/
git clone https://github.com/hthiery/dotfiles.git

Enable dotfiles castle:

homeshick link dotfiles

Bash Prompt

add the following lines to ~/.bashrc

if [ -e ~/.bash_prompt ]; then
    source ~/.bash_prompt
fi

Windows

Expecte the sources are in c:sources. A NTFS link is used to bring the vim files to the user directory. This has be done with adminstrator rights. Open command line with Start->Run command enter cmd and press CTRL+SHIFT+Enter.

cd c:\\Users\\<USER>
mklink .vimrc c:\\sources\\dotfiles\\.vimrc
mklink /D vimfiles c:\\sources\\dotfiles\\.vim

Fonts

To update the font cache use:

The debian package fonts-powerline contains the font Inconsolata-dz for Powerline.

apt install fonts-powerline

With the font-manager the installed fonts can be checked.

apt install font-manager

to update the font cache

fc-cache -vf

• Inconsolata-dz for Powerline from https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts/tree/master/InconsolataDz

Submodules

To install the submodules configured in .gitsubmodules just execute the following commands after cloning this repo.

git submodule init
git submodule udpate

Color Settings

Vim

• https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline
• https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar
• https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
• https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
• https://github.com/mfukar/robotframework-vim
• https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-vim
• https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline-themes
• https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree
• https://github.com/rking/ag.vim

To manage the plugins use vim-plug

You need to install the vim-plug with:

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Now the vim plugins can be installed. Start vim and enter:

:PlugInstall

XResources

TBD

Shell/Bash

if [ -d ~/dotfiles/base16-shell/ ]; then
    BASE16_SHELL="$HOME/dotfiles/base16-shell/base16-bright.dark.sh"
    [[ -s $BASE16_SHELL ]] && source $BASE16_SHELL
fi