Dotfiles

Some dotfiles and settings mainly for MAC OS X.

Instructions

For almost everything you need to have XCode installed as well as the XCode command tools. You can install them with the following command:

xcode-select --install

Creating source files

Any file which matches the shell glob _* will be linked into $HOME as a symlink with the first _ replaced with a .

For example:

_bashrc

becomes

${HOME}/.bashrc

Installing source files

It's as simple as running:

$ ./install.sh

From this top-level directory.

Command Line Tools

Package Managers

• Homebrew

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb)"

• Homebrew Cask to manage Mac applications binaries:

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

Utilities

Terminal Multiplexer with tmux

$ brew install tmux

A good addon to create and manage tmux sessions easily: tmuxinator

gem install tmuxinator

Note: Install RVM before.

UNIX tools

$ brew install htop-osx mobile-shell automake glib bash tree lzop findutils

Install GNU find, locate, updatedb, and xargs, g-prefixed

Networking Tools

$ brew install wget nmap ifstat tcpdump mtr

Cheat

Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

$ brew install cheat

Versionning

$ brew install git git-crypt legit bazaar mercurial svn cvs git-flow-avh

Hg-Git is a plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Mercurial:

$ easy_install hg-git

And add the extension to your ~/.hgrc.

Libraries

For image processing and plotting:

$ brew install jpeg libpng libffi giflib boost protobuf lzlib grapviz gnuplot libsvg svg2png svg2pdf ghostscript imagemagick

With XQuartz you can also install xpdf.

For text processing:

$ brew install gettext readline aspell xapian markdown w3m highlight ag

For some programs you will need to force the linking

brew link gettext --force

And font management:

$ brew install freetype freexl fontconfig fontforge

For evented architecture:

$ brew install libevent libuv zeromq

For encryption:

brew install gpg openssl nacl

Databases

$ brew install sqlite redis cassandra hdf5 mongodb

For Postgres we use the Postgres.app

$ brew cask install postgres

Postgres CLI, Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

$ brew install pgcli

Goodies:

• Robomongo MongoDB management tool

Python

To manage different Python versions at the user level, one way to go is to use pyenv:

$ brew install pyenv pyenv-virtualenv pyenv-virtualenvwrapper

Because virtualenvwrapper is depending on python, you must first install at least one version of python.

For example, install 2.7.9 and set it as global in pyenv.

$ pyenv install 2.7.9
$ pyenv global 2.7.9

To setup a virtualenvwrapper into your shell, just run

pyenv virtualenvwrapper

You can then work in a virtualenv using your favorite Python version.

And then work in your virtual environments.

For further integration with emacs, ropemacs is highly recommended:

$ pip install rope ropemacs ropemode elpy jedi epc

Clojure

$ brew install leiningen

Go

$ brew install go

"go get" the basics

$ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godef
$ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
$ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/vet

Ruby

$ brew install libyaml libxml2 libxslt libksba

RVM is a command-line tool which allows you to easily install, manage, and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

An RVM cheatsheet can be found here.

Rust

$ brew install rust

Node.js / io.js

We install node/iojs using Node Version Manager (nvm), a simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions:

$ brew install nvm

Add the following to $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.zshrc, or your shell's equivalent configuration file:

$ export NVM_DIR=~/.nvm
$ source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

Now use nvm to install the latest stable release of node:

$ nvm install stable

Text Editor

Install the latest stable Emacs version from http://emacsformacosx.com/

Or a good OS X port by @railwaycat can be found there: emacs-mac-port and can be easilly installed with brew:

$ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

and then

brew install emacs-mac

Install Cask for Emacs package management:

brew install cask

zsh

$ brew install zsh

make it the default shell

$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

add to it oh-my-zsh

$ git clone git://github.com/sebastibe/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh

with zsh-syntax-highlighting in ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins:

$ git clone git://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git

or alternatively with Pretzo:

# Uninstall oh my zsh
$ uninstall_oh_my_zsh

# Open new shell, open zsh and clone the presto repo
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto.git "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto"

# Get prezto's default configuration
$ setopt EXTENDED_GLOB
for rcfile in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}"/.zprezto/runcoms/^README.md(.N); do
  ln -s "$rcfile" "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.${rcfile:t}"
  done

Emails

$ brew install isync mu html2text gnutls
$ pip install offlineimap

A good webmail client: mailpile

Files Recovery

Recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error.

$ brew install testdisk

LaTeX

• MacTex
• PDF reader and note-taker (interacting with LaTeX) Skim

Desktop Tools

• iTerm2 alternative to Term
• GitHub for Mac
• iStumber Mac Network discovery tool
• WaterRoof Firewall editor
• keyremap4macbook Remap your keyboard

Window Management

With Slate you can:

• Bind keystrokes to:
  • move and/or resize windows
  • directionally focus windows
  • activate preset layouts
  • create, delete, and activate snapshots of the current state of windows
• Set default layouts for different monitor configurations which will activate when that configuration is detected.
• Window Hints: an intuitive way to change window focus

$ brew cask install mattr-slate

Install f.lux To save your eyes.

$ brew cask install flux

XQuartz X.Org Windows system for OS X (needed for gnuplot):

$ brew cask install xquartz dialog

And others also availables through the App store:

• Moom for better Mac OS X Windows organization (paid)
• GeekTool enable to overlay information on the screen background

Android

• Android File Transfer Utility to tranfer files to an Android device

Bit Torrent

$ brew cask install transmission

Team Communication

$ brew cask install slack franz

Powerline

pip install powerline-status psutil

git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts

Notes

A console client for Evernote: Geeknote

Note: use the fork as the original author has disapeared.

brew install --HEAD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote/master/geeknote.rb