We ♥ the Vim.

Fresh install

Warning this will blow away any vim/bash setups you have currently. You may want to back up existing files.

• Xcode should be installed on your system from the App Store
• Install Xcode command line tools by running xcode-select --install in a terminal window
• Install Homebrew if you don't already by running ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" in a terminal window
• Make sure you have git installed by running brew install git in a terminal window
• Make sure you have ripgrep installed by running brew install ripgrep in a terminal window
• In a terminal window cd to the dotfiles directory and run bin/install world
• A helpful way to reload the terminal once the dotfiles are installed and terminal has been relaunched is to run our alias reload in a terminal window (this only effects reloading of the current window not all terminal windows)
• Set reasonable OSX defaults
• Ruby (optional; if you want to use the built-in Rbenv support): brew install rbenv ruby-build
• Elixir (optional; if you want to use the built-in Exenv support): brew install exenv elixir-build

Settings

Rock a sweet Bash setup

The Bash setup is fairly bare bones out of the box. To override or add any additional settings create a ~/.bashrc.local file and add any customization.

The default Bash settings support the rbenv environment.

Git credentials

To setup your git credentials correctly you'll need to add a .gitconfig.local file to your $HOME directory and add the following:

[user]
  name = YOUR_GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
  email = YOUR_GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
[github]
  user = YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME

Override Vim settings

To override or add any additional settings create a ~/.vimrc.local file and add any customization.

Vim is setup with vim-plug as it's plugin manager. The default plugins are enabled within the .vimrc file. To load localized plugins add them to a ~/.vimrc.bundles file.

To install the plugins open up vim by running vim in a terminal window and then typing :PlugInstall. If you get an error while opening up vim about not being able to find colorscheme pigment that's ok as the :PlugInstall will fix this for the next time you launch vim.

Tips

GPG (Optional)

You will need to install GPG Keychain for GPG signing to happen automatically. See GPG Tools for more information. There are ways to do this through homebrew, but the setup is a bit much. To obtain your GPG signing key you can either open up GPG Keychain, or run gpg --list-keys and add this to the GIT_SIGNING_KEY in your .bashrc.local file.

You will also need to make your GPG signing key the primary one. You can do this by opening up GPG Keychain and doing these steps:

• select your key
• hit the details button
• select User IDs from the menu
• right click on your user id and select primary
• select 'save to keychain' when the dialog pops up
• and add this to your .gitconfig.local:

[user]
  signingKey = YOUR_GIT_SIGNING_KEY
[commit]
  gpgsign = true
[gpg]
  program = /usr/local/bin/gpg

Install Polarized terminal themes

Included in the vimrc is Plug mkitt/pigment. This is the color settings for Vim. Any color profile should work with this theme including the defaults from Apple. Included from the pigment repository is the Polarized light and dark profiles. Import these profiles into Apple's Terminal.app and set one as the default. They should be found in:

~/.vim/plugged/pigment/profiles/

Turn caps lock into the control key

The control key is in an awkward position and the caps lock key is basically useless. It's right there in the home row, so you might as well put it to good use.

1. Open up System Preferences

• Select Keyboard
• Select Modifier Keys
• From the drop down, select ^ Control under the Caps Lock setting
• In the Select Keyboard drop down, set it for both internal and external keyboards

Mouse support for Terminal

To get full mouse support (scrolling, clicking, etc...) within Terminal Vim, install the SIMBL MouseTerm plug-in.