Super Awesome OSX Settings

This repository contains my ZSH and iTerm settings. I also have a Vim Settings repository and a Workstation repository which bootstraps your OS X workstation into a development machine.

The features included are among others:

• Colored prompt for ZSH.
• Automatic project aliases.
• Ruby on Rails specific aliases.
• RVM support.

Installation

Run the following to install the OSX settings:

git clone git://github.com/kevintuhumury/osx-settings.git ~/.osx-settings
cd ~/.osx-settings
./script/install

The installation will create a backup of a previous version and symlinks the available dot files and git hooks.

Configure Git

Git uses your name and email for each commit. You can run the following commands (with your own name and email of course) to globally set these:

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

When you've got both personal and work related repositories on your host (like I do), you can use the aliases home_config and work_config (they're defined in .osx-settings/config/aliases.zsh) to set the corresponding email into your local git config of the current repository. These will only work when you set the environment variables below in .osx-settings/config/personal.zsh:

export HOME_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
export WORK_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"

Upgrading

To get the latest version:

cd ~/.osx-settings
git pull origin master

Customizing

Project aliases

This script adds aliases for your project directories, but you'll have to tell it where your projects can be found.

Edit .osx-settings/config/personal.zsh, which you've already created earlier for your Git settings above. Add something like:

PROJECT_PARENT_DIRS+=("$HOME/code")

Add as many directories as you like.

iTerm2

In the iTerm2 general settings, check Load preferences from a user-defined folder or URL. Fill in the text field to point to /Users/your_name/.osx-settings/iterm2. You might need to restart iTerm2 after that.

If you have trouble reading the colors, enable Draw bold text in bright colors in the iTerm2 profiles settings (under Text).

Credits

This is heavily inspired by others, but mostly by @iain.