dots

A place for backing up my dotfiles. Be sure to clone recursively if you want to grab updated plugins / submodules included. For example, using Pathogen with Vim to manage plugins requires that the plugin to be installed are cloned to the ~/.vim/bundle/ directory. Cloning recursively allows git to clone these same nested repositories/submodules within this directory so Pathogen can handle running the Vim plugins.

Once installed, editing source code in vim supports features displayed in the screenshot below

Install Dotfiles

Easiest installation is to clone repository into home directory -

git clone --recursive https://github.com/shaunrd0/dot ~/dot
cd ~/dot/
stow --adopt .

If you'd rather clone elsewhere -

git clone --recursive https://github.com/shaunrd0/dot /path/to/dot
cd /path/to/dot/
stow --adopt -t ~ .

Warning: Since --adopt is used to force linking to conflicting files, but doing so could result in the loss of some configs within your local copy of the repository. After running stow --adopt ., be sure to check git status is clean. If a file has been modified or deleted, restore the file or otherwise discard the local changes to be up-to-date with origin/master and it will immediately be restored on your system as well, since the files are now linked.

We could run the following commands to restore changed files

git checkout -- .vimrc
# Or, to step through each change interactively using git..
git checkout -p
# Or restore the current directory
git restore .

If you forget to clone recursively

git submodule update
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/Colorizer': checked out '53ada285f0acc171acda4280b6144e468dded89f'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/ale': checked out '7265ceb6d050d1a4642741d248f11e4f2abd37e1'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/clang_complete': checked out '0b98d7533ad967aac3fc4c1a5b0508dafa8a676f'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/supertab': checked out '40fe711e088e2ab346738233dd5adbb1be355172'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/unicode.vim': checked out '29f43f7b1be94dccfac461f4da0a34410408111f'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/vim-airline': checked out '6d665580a3435f21ad560af192d854d4b608fff5'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/vim-airline-themes': checked out '0d5c5c1e2995126e76606a628316c8e3f5efb37a'
Submodule path '.vim/bundle/vim-signify': checked out '16eee41d2b267523b84bd4ac111627588bfd1a47'

Install Clang Completion

These configurations require the installation and setup of libclang for clang completion

If you don't want clang completion, just remove the plugin directory from ~/.vim/bundle/.

If you don't remove clang completion and skip the following steps, vim will show errors when opening source code files. This is because these configurations use clang completion for source code auto completion and drop-down menus within vim.

I use the libclang-10-dev package for this. You can use whichever version you want, but to use the same version as I do, you could run the following commands. Note that the printf command may take some time to finish, since it is searching your system for a needed file.

sudo apt install libclang-10-dev
printf "export LIBCLANG=\""$(find /usr/ -name libclang.so.1 2>/dev/null)"\"\n\n" >> .bash_aliases
echo "let g:clang_library_path=\$LIBCLANG" >> ~/.vimrc
source ~/.bashrc