dotar/README.md

Yan's Excellent Dotfiles!
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There are two main goals accomplished in my dotfiles to produce insane productivity

  * All common bash commands should be two and three character mnemonic aliases
  * Most vim tasks, especially those having to do with navigation, should be mapped to a single Capital Letter or two letter mnemonic. 

Setup
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To set these up as your own (careful, don't overwrite your bash_profile unintentionally!):

    git clone git://github.com/skwp/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles

    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
    . ~/.bash_profile

Lots of things I do every day are done with 
two or three character mnemonic aliases. Please 
feel free to edit them:

    ae # alias edit
    ar # alias reload

To use the vim files:

    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
    
The .vimrc is well commented and broken up by settings. I encourage you
to take a look and learn some of my handy aliases, or comment them out
if you don't like them, or make your own.

To use the gitconfig (some of the git bash aliases rely on my git aliases)

    ln -s ~/.dotfiles/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig


Major Vim Improvements 
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These are things I use every day to be insanely productive. Hope you like em.

 * F - instantly Find definition of class (must have exuberant ctags installed)
 * B - show Buffer explorer
 * S - Show buffers in LustyJuggler (use asdfjkl home row keys to then select buffer)
 * T - Tag list (list of methods in a class)
 * K - git grep for the Kurrent word under the cursor
 * O - Open a GitGrep command line with a quote pretyped (close the quote yourself)
 * M - show my Marks (set a mark with mX where X is a letter, navigate to mark using 'X). Uppercase marks to mark files, lowercase marks to use within a file.
 * Z - jump back and forth between last two buffers
 * Q - Quit a window (normally Ctrl-w,c)
 * \Q - Kill a buffer completely (normally :bw)
 * Ctrl-j and Ctrl-k to move up and down roughly by functions
 * vv and ss - vertical and horizontal split windows by double tapping
 * H,L,I,M - to move left, right, up, down between windows
 * Ctrl-\ - Show NerdTree (project finder) and expose current file
 * cf - Copy Filename of current file into system (not vi) paste buffer 
 * // - clear the search

Credits
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I can't take credit for all of this. The vim files are a combination of
work by tpope, scrooloose, and many hours of scouring blogs, vimscripts,
and other places for the cream of the crop of vim and bash awesomeness.

TODO
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I started migrating to tpope's pathogen, but only a few plugins are 
currently under vim/bundles. 

For more tips and tricks
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Follow my blog: http://yanpritzker.com