• rcm: management suite for dotfiles
  • See rcm#installation
  • See Blog post introducing rcm

./setup

1. Set environment variables:

   setx HOME %USERPROFILE%
   setx XDG_CONFIG_HOME "%USERPROFILE%\.config"
   

2. When installing git scm be sure to check the 'Enable symbolic links' option.

3. When cloning this repo:

   git clone -c core.symlinks=true git@github.com:darcyparker/dotfiles.git

   If you don't have the privilege to create symbolic links then you will need to run cmd.exe, powershell or bash as administrator so that symbolic links are created when cloning.

4. Recommended:

   If you don't have privilege to create symbolic links, using cygwin to run setup.sh is recommended because it will use cygstart to call mklink as administrator for each link that needs to be created.

Setup cygwin to mount /home to $USERPROFILE:

mount -f "$USERPROFILE" ~
mount -m > /etc/fstab

Installer: https://msys2.github.io/ See https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24099179/msys2-does-not-source-profile/26554978#26554978

/etc/fstab needs to be edited in order for ~/.bash_profile to be sourced after ~/etc/profile.

Example:

$ cat /etc/fstab
# For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide
# http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

# DO NOT REMOVE NEXT LINE. It remove cygdrive prefix from path
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0

d:/Users/dparker /home/dparker ntfs binary,posix=0,user 0 0

Run setup.bat as administrator (because mklink.exe is needed to create symbolic links to _vimrc, .vim, and .config/nvim.