Some changes, like chpwd, must happen in ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs/post/chpwd:

This directory is handy for combining dotfiles from multiple teams; one team can add the virtualenv file, another keys, and a third chpwd.

The ~/dotfiles-local/zshrc.local is loaded after ~/dotfiles-local/zsh/configs.

The zsh history is configured with several useful options:

• hist_ignore_all_dups: Removes duplicate commands from history

• hist_ignore_space: Commands starting with a space are not saved to history (useful for sensitive commands)

• inc_append_history: Adds commands to history as they're executed, not just when the shell exits

• share_history: Shares history across multiple zsh sessions in real-time

History size is set to 8,192 entries providing ample command history.

Similarly to the zsh configuration directory as described above, vim automatically loads all files in the ~/dotfiles-local/vim/plugin directory. This does not have the same pre or post subdirectory support that our zshrc has.

This is an example ~/dotfiles-local/vim/plugin/c.vim. It is loaded every time vim starts, regardless of the file name:

vim configuration:

• fzf for fuzzy file/buffer/tag finding.
• Rails.vim for enhanced navigation of Rails file structure via gf and :A (alternate), :Rextract partials, :Rinvert migrations, etc.
• Run many kinds of tests from vim
• Set to a single space.
• Switch between the last two files with space-space.
• Syntax highlighting for Markdown, HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Elixir, more.
• Use Ag instead of Grep when available.
• Map ct to re-index ctags.
• Use vim-mkdir for automatically creating non-existing directories before writing the buffer.
• Use vim-plug to manage plugins.

tmux configuration:

• Improve color resolution.
• Remove administrative debris (session name, hostname, time) in status bar.
• Set prefix to Ctrl+s
• Soften status bar color from harsh green to light gray.

git configuration:

• Adds a co-upstream-pr $PR_NUMBER $LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME subcommand to checkout remote upstream branch into a local branch.
• Adds a create-branch alias to create feature branches.
• Adds a delete-branch alias to delete feature branches.
• Adds a merge-branch alias to merge feature branches into master.
• Adds an up alias to fetch and rebase origin/master into the feature branch. Use git up -i for interactive rebases.
• Adds post-{checkout,commit,merge} hooks to re-index your ctags.
• Adds pre-commit and prepare-commit-msg stubs that delegate to your local config.
• Adds trust-bin alias to append a project's bin/ directory to $PATH.

Ruby configuration:

• Add trusted binstubs to the PATH.
• Load the ASDF version manager.

Rails

• Adds railsrc with the following options to integrate with Suspenders.

If you want to skip this file altogether, run rails new my_app --no_rc.

Shell aliases and scripts:

• ... for quicker navigation to the parent's parent directory.
• b for bundle.
• g with no arguments is git status and with arguments acts like git.
• migrate for bin/rails db:migrate db:rollback && bin/rails db:migrate db:test:prepare.
• mcd to make a directory and change into it.
• replace foo bar **/*.rb to find and replace within a given list of files.
• tat to attach to tmux session named the same as the current directory.
• v for $VISUAL.

Thank you, contributors! Also, thank you to Corey Haines, Gary Bernhardt, and others for sharing your dotfiles and other shell scripts from which we derived inspiration for items in this project.

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