My Terminal Configs

There’s a couple configs that I’ve gotten used to, so add these when using a new computer!

Bash

# Safe rm 
alias rm='rm -i'  

# Recursively touch every file in current directory.
# Useful for HPC systems that scrub old files. -mtime flag makes more efficient when it errors out. 
alias touchall='find . -mtime +1 -exec touch {} +'


### These may already exist on Unix systems, check for them! ####

# History settings 
# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth

# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=10000
HISTFILESIZE=20000

# After each command, append to the history file and reread it
PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}history -a; history -c; history -r"


# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='dir --color=auto'
    #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'

    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
fi

# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -alF'
alias la='ls -A'
alias l='ls -CF'

# color user@host:dir$ prompt  (put this BEFORE conda init!) 
PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\W\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\] '

# function to make copying directory hierarchies easy! Useful for collecting ML results :-) 
copytree () {
    # requires 2 args: SRC and DST 
    python3.8 -c "import shutil; from os.path import expanduser; \
    shutil.copytree(expanduser('${1}'), expanduser('${2}'), dirs_exist_ok=True)"
}

Vim

I like the “monokain” color scheme for Vim. To install it:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/colors
cd ~/.vim/colors
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flazz/vim-colorschemes/master/colors/monokain.vim

~/.vimrc:

set autoindent 
set tabstop=4 
set softtabstop=4  " number of spaces in tab 
set expandtab      " tabs are spaces 
set number         " use line numbers 
" set mouse=a        " xterm mouse (ignore line #s) 
" set clipboard=unnamed  " yank to clipboard

colorscheme monokain 
set showmatch      " highlight matching [{()}] 

" This lets you paste without bad indentation 
let &t_SI .= "\<Esc>[?2004h"
let &t_EI .= "\<Esc>[?2004l"
inoremap <special> <expr> <Esc>[200~ XTermPasteBegin()
function! XTermPasteBegin()
  set pastetoggle=<Esc>[201~
  set paste
  return ""
endfunction

Git

Add these to ~/.gitconfig to save login info on the current machine for this user, and to visualize the branches with git tree:

[credential]
    helper = cache
[alias]
    tree = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit