Dotfiles

My dotfiles. Feel free to fork/improve them. There's a lot here, but here's some of my favorite features:

.vimrc

• jk is escape. It's easy to roll your fingers across these keys quickly. It also does more though - it automatically saves the file, if the file hasn't already been saved. It also makes sure that vim knows that the file really hasn't been modified, since vim assumes the file gets modified every time you go in insert mode. It also clears any trailing whitespace from the current line if you're in insert mode.
• <space> as <leader>. You can't make mneumonics with it, but it's really easy to type, so I like it.
• Lots of plugin customization, with plugins like vim-airline, syntastic (with my gcc warnings for C)
• Automatic tab setting that detects the indent of the current file. It also warns if spaces and tabs are mixed. It's not as fancy as the plugins ffor this, but it's a very simple agorithm that just almost all of the time.

.tmux.conf

• Use PREFIX + w + # to go to window #
• Use PREFIX + # to go to pane #

Also, you can use CTRL+[hjkl] to move seamlessly between tmux and vim, thanks to vim-tmux-navigator.

.gitconfig

• diff3. It shows the common ancestor as well as the main commits in a merge.
• The pager is less -XFR, which makes it so that if the output it less than a screen long, it effectively just prints it to stdout, and it doesn't clear the the screen after the command. This means you can actually look at the log while typing the next command.
• credenntial.helper = cache, which saves your password in memory for some time so you neither need to keep entering it in nor deal with ssh keys.
• A crazy number of aliases
• git abbrev-head to be able to use h instead of HEAD
• Use git commit -v instead of git commit whever possible to show what changes are being commited while typing the commit message
• git wipe is git reset --hard improved - it commits and then resets, so that you can get back through git reflog. (Idea taken from here).
• git upa updates all branches
• git hub <user> <repo> to clone from github.
• And most importantly, amazing logging:
  • All logs are grep friendly
  • git lg for a quick log, just showing the commit message, any referencing branches/tags, and just enough of the hash to check that commit out
  • Add d/n to get dates/names for the commits (ex. git lgn or git lgd or git lgdn).
  • Add a/c at the end to get the commits for all branches, and to force color output, respectively.
  • git lge to view edits in detail
  • git last and git laste to see the last commit and last edit