dotfiles

sloria's dotfiles, rewritten as Ansible roles. Sets up a full local development environment with a single command.

Fully supports macOS. Red Hat and Debian support is good but not as complete.

a few neat features

• zsh configured with prezto.
• nice fonts for the terminal and coding.
• python3, pipx (for managing python CLIs), pyenv (for managing Python versions), and pyenv-virtualenv (for managing virtualenvs)
• a tmux.conf that's pretty neat.
• vim with vim-plug for plugin management. All configuration in a single file .vimrc.
• pluggable. Everything is optional. Fork this. Remove what you don't use. Configure what you do use.
• Mac packages installed with homebrew. Mac apps installed with homebrew-cask and mas.
• Useful git aliases
• Optional git commit signing with GPG

prerequisites

• homebrew (If on macOS) - Install this first
• git: brew install git
• ansible >= 1.6: brew install ansible

install

• Fork this repo.
• Clone your fork.

# Replace git url with your fork
# NOTE: It is important that you clone to ~/dotfiles
git clone https://github.com/YOU/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles

• Update the following variables in group_vars/local (at a minimum)
  • full_name: Your name, which will be attached to commit messages, e.g. "Steven Loria"
  • git_user: Your Github username.
  • git_email: Your git email address.
• Optional, but recommended: Update group_vars/local with the programs you want installed by homebrew, homebrew-cask, and npm.
  • mac_homebrew_packages: Utilities that don't get installed by the roles.
  • mac_cask_packages: Mac Apps you want installed with homebrew-cask.
• Edit local_env.yml as you see fit. Remove any roles you don't use. Edit roles that you do use.
• Optional: If you want to sign Git commits with a GPG key, follow the instructions here to generate a GPG key from Keybase. Then set the GIT_SIGNING_KEY_ID environment variable before running the dot-bootstrap script.

export GIT_SIGNING_KEY_ID=631262B829DDB506

Note: After running the dot-bootstrap script, you should put the above line in ~/.localrc.

• Run the installation script.

./bin/dot-bootstrap

authenticating with github

You won't be able to push to repos until you authenticate with GitHub. You can use gh for this, which should have been installed by dot-bootstrap above.

gh auth login

updating your local environment

Once you have the dotfiles installed you can run the following command to rerun the ansible playbook:

dot-update

You can optionally pass role names

dot-update git python

updating your dotfiles repo

To keep your fork up to date with the sloria fork:

git remote add sloria https://github.com/sloria/dotfiles.git
git pull sloria master

commands

There are three main commands in the bin directory for setting up and updating development environments:

• dot-bootstrap: sets up local environment by executing all roles in local_env.yml.
• dot-update: updates local environment by executing all roles in local_env.yml except for the ones tagged with "bootstrap".

special files

All configuration is done in ~/dotfiles. Each role may contain (in addition to the typical ansible directories and files) a number of special files

• role/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.

notes

vscode

Use built-in Settings Sync to sync VSCode settings.

macOS keyboard settings

There are a few keyboard customizations that must be done manually:

• Turning repeat speed up to 11.

• Mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl.

login message

You can add a message to the login screen using the following command:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "This laptop is connected to an iCloud account and is valueless if lost. Contact (123) 456-7890 if found. Reward included."

what if I only want your vim?

First make sure you have a sane vim compiled. On macOS, the following will do:

brew install macvim

The following commands will install vim-plug and download my .vimrc.

After backing up your ~/.vim directory and ~/.vimrc:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
curl -fLo ~/.vimrc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sloria/dotfiles/master/roles/vim/files/vimrc

You will now be able to open vim and run :PlugInstall to install all plugins.

troubleshooting

If you get an error about Xcode command-line tools, you may need to run

sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

If pyenv versions fail to install, try the steps here:

pyenv/pyenv#1219 (comment)

If python environments break after upgrading brew-installed python, rehash pyenv and re-install pipx environments

pyenv rehash


mv ~/.local/bin ~/.local/bin.bak
mv ~/.local/pipx ~/.local/pipx.bak

dot-update pipx

todo

• Full Debian and Red Hat support

license

MIT Licensed.