the dotfiles of jtratner

From their start standing on the shoulders of dotfile giants like sontek, jtratner's dotfiles have begun to slowly evolve in their own right.

What's In Here

• the dotfiles of jtratner
  • Using these dotfiles
  • My dotvim
• Setting up dotfiles, vim and IPython
  • Getting Vim
  • Getting the dotfiles
  • Install the dotfiles
  • Python Dependencies
  • IPython

Using these dotfiles

Super-quick Install

Get a working set of files by entering the following on a command line.

git clone https://github.com/jtratner/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
cd .dotfiles
./install.sh

Installing on Windows

If you are using Windows, you can use the vim files by copying into your home folder (where $HOME is your directory, where you have folders for My Documents, etc). You can get my either via git clone or by downloading them as a zip file on github.

• vimrc.symlink should be copied to $HOME/_vimrc (note the '_' !)
• vim.symlink should be copied to $HOME/vimfiles

Installation Notes

install.sh

(see tl;dr above) Running install.sh sets up the dotfiles and updates submodules + will back up your files to .bak. If, for some reason, you don't want to update your submodules, you can comment out the lines that start with git

Some things need dependencies

I've tried to document dependencies below, but a quick list here for reference. NONE of these are necessary to use my dotfiles, they just enable additional features.

Plugin	Dependencies
Syntastic	Requires 'compilers' for whatever files you want to check (for example, to check .rst files you need docutils)
Hammer	Requires github/markup, coderay, and tilt
Ack	Requires an installation of ack (well worth it!)
Vim-IPython	Requires ipython to be installed (see IPython section for more)

My dotvim

The vimrc.symlink file is pretty well documented. You could also go read sontek's description of his dotfiles for more in-depth info on many of these plugins. I'm just going to mention the changes I've made since 'forking'(ish) sontek's dotfiles. More info will come over time

New bundles

• syntastic - makes it real easy to check the syntax on any filetype (just have to have the parser installed. I have docutils (rst), pyflakes, pep8 (for python) installed at the moment, to name a few).
• Hammer :Hammer, converts your current lightweight-markup file to HTML.
• vim-ipython - hands down the best tool to help you code in python lets you connect to ipython, which is a fabulous suite for
• VOom - simple but very useful vim application. Creates a two-pane outline window that allows you to browse the structure of your files (or classes/functions in python ,etc). For example if you run :Voom on this file, you'll see a neat directory tree that you can use to navigate the file. Also has a useful in-file grep.
• tComment - handy for easily commenting/uncommenting sections
• snipmate - (updated to garbas' new version + added the snippet repository)
• Powerline - better vim status bar. NOTE: You have to install a patched font to use it. Luckily, there are some included in fonts/fonts.symlink/ that'll be installed automatically. Yay!
• Ctrl-P - like Command-T but on steroids + no ruby required. Just type <ctrl-P> and your

reStructuredText/autounderline Functions

• :Underline <arg> and :Title <arg> where <arg> is a character or number. (title creates an under and overline)

some vim text

":Un -

some vim text
-------------

New shortcuts

Mappings

Mapping	Mnemonic	Settings
<leader> en	'edit normal'	tw=78; fo+=t, colorcolumn+=0
<leader> ec	'edit comment'	tw=72; fo+=t, colorcolumn+=0
<leader> ed	'edit done'	restore defaults (or tw=80,fo-=t, colorcolumn=0)
<leader> p	'paste'	paste from clipboard
<leader> y	'yank'	yank to clipboard
<S-C-V>	(normal paste)	paste from clipboard
<S-C-C>	'copy'	yank to clipboard
Q	'quick form'?	format the current paragraph

Commands

Command	Settings
:SetFont	use to quickly change font in gvim
<F3>	toggle VoOM
:DiffSaved	Show diffs between current file and saved file

Setting up dotfiles, vim and IPython

Getting Vim

Prepacked

Easiest way: sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome (if you're using unity)

• Mac : I think you can get MacVim which should have everything
• Windows : The vim.symlink files will be helpful, but note that it has to be under vimfiles, not .vim

Compiling Vim (Medium!)

0. Handling dependencies - there are a ton and, unfortunately, vim doesn't always tell you that you've managed to get all the ones you want. I used to have an install script[1]_, but it really varies a ton by platform.
   • Ubuntu (and Linux generally) there's a raft of libraries, but the most important to grab are: xorg-dev python-dev ruby ruby-dev as well as a raft of ncurses libraries.
   • Mac Check out homebrew

1. The easiest way to setup vim and be sure that you have the features you want is to grab the tarball from the vim homepage, and configure it with[2]

./configure --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-gui --with-features=huge --prefix=$HOME/path/to/directory `

2. Go to your directory where you installed vim and check that you got the right version with

./vim --version

3. If you did it correctly, you'll get a huge amount of input with + and -. Most important thing is to check that you had the following:
   • +python
   • +ruby (if you want Command-T)
   • +xterm-clipboard (if on Linux w/ X11) or another +clipboard entry -- you need this to be able to copy/paste from the clipboard.

Getting the dotfiles

Option 1: Clone the dotfiles

0. Install git. (e.g. sudo apt-get install git)
1. Pick a directory, then clone these dotfiles with (it'll automatically add it to a folder called 'dotfiles' unless you specify a different folder after the clone e.g. git clone https://github.com/jtratner/dotfiles.git mydotfilecollection/jtratner):

git clone https://github.com/jtratner/dotfiles.git

Option 2: Fork the dotfiles yourself

0. Get an account on github, follow their instructions and come back after a bit. Fork the dotfiles yourself. (click on the fork button ;))
1. Initiate a git repository, then add your fork of dotfiles on github as a remote. Finally, download your files.

mkdir dotfiles
cd dotfiles
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:*username_/_yourrepository*.git
git pull origin master

Install the dotfiles

2. Go into the dotfiles directory, run ./install.sh in the command line. BOOM! You are halfway done.

Python Dependencies

Install rope, nose and ack (optional virtualenv)

1. Rope and nose you can get through easy_install or pip (I prefer pip)

pip install rope nose

2. Ack you have to get as a package (e.g. apt-get install ack or through homebrew)
3. virtualenv - highly useful, you probably want it. (I list it last because the previous items need to be installed system-wide)

pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
virtualenvwrapper.sh

IPython

Installing IPython (+ dependencies)

Preface This ought to work:

easy_install ipython[zmq,qtconsole,notebook,test]

It never works for me. You can install IPython with pip/easy_install, you just have to get the dependencies first. Before you do, you might also check out the IPython website and its guide to installation

0. Getting python dependencies (you may already have some or all of these) Note

   that matplotlib, scipy, and numpy are only required if you want to run pylab; however I highly suggest that you get them because they are very useful and pretty darn cool

pip install nose tornado pygments pyzmq pexpect distribute matplotlib scipy numpy

1. Getting Qt This can be more or less of an ordeal, depending on your system.

   Do yourself a favor: try to find a precompiled binary first it will be far easier. Seriously. Otherwise, you'll probably need to get SIP, PyQt and Qt online. (TODO: write instructions for this. For now, Google search is your friend.)

2. Install IPython Okay, actually this is pretty easy now! Yay!

pip install ipython

3. Check that it's working Run IPython's testing suite. Read the output to

   make sure you aren't missing any libraries.

iptest

4. If it fails,

   1. It's okay. Happened to me too.

   2. Read the output of iptest, see if it gives any info. (google is your

      friend).

   3. Check that you have all the dependencies.
   4. Try uninstalling and reinstalling IPython.
   5. If it's not fixed by now, try Google, Stack Overflow or the IPython website

You have a working setup!

Now you should be able to just run your file and have everything work. Whee!

[2]	The easiest way is to download and install a precompiled version. On Ubuntu, vim-gnome has most of what you want.

[3]	I set up a different home directory and then symlink it to my local bin, that way I can still use the default system editor as needed (say if xwindows