Subject: Easy Good
Date: Fri Mar 16 14:08:21 PDT 2007
Text-Type: markdown
Tags: config, ratpoison, screen

Config file post-o-ramas are always entertaining, at least for me.  I was
inspired to write this one because [mark
pilgrim's](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/15/good-easy-2007) and [neil
dunn's](http://ndunn.com/2007/good-easy) were so bloody similar to mine, but it
seems I shy on the side of excess complexity.

Quoting the inspiring part of mark's post:

> It’s true that you can spend a lot of time editing configuration files, but
> most people don’t realize how portable they are and how long they remain
> useful. The cost of customizability is amortized over years, not months. The
> cost of setting up a new workstation is near-zero.

I keep all my configs in an svn repo on this machine, so here's all the fun stuff:

* [~/.xinitrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.xinitrc)

    I usually start X with [slim](http://slim.berlios.de/) or startx.  Both of
    these commands read a user-based ~/.xinitrc.  This one is small, so it's
    here:

        #!/bin/sh

        xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
        xset m 2 1

        #this will keep the clipboard in sync
        #   with the selection buffer
        #autocutsel -selection CLIPBOARD -fork

        tpb & #thinkpad button handler (with xosd output)
        mpd & #moosics!

        #just in case scaling the BG fudges at the edges, make them black
        xsetroot -bg black
        eval $(cat ~/.fehbg)

        exec ratpoison

* [~/.bashrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.bashrc)

    My bashrc is fairly complicated.  I have a handful of functions that I should
    probably break out into ~/bin/ scripts.  All-in-all, there's not really much
    there.  Though [~/.inputrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.inputrc) is probably
    fairly important as well.

    Here's a little excerpt I posted to mark's blog, about letting bash set
    screen's window title automatically.

        #special screen-specific stuff for window titles
        case $TERM in
            screen*)
                trap 'echo -ne "\ek${BASH_COMMAND%%\ *}\e\\"' DEBUG
                PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\ek$(short_pwd 15)\e\\"'
                ;;
        esac

    Note that the `trap` line sets screen's title to the command I'm running,
    and the `PROMPT_COMMAND` line sets the title to the current dir when at the
    prompt.  short_pwd is similar to vim's pathshorten() function used in tab
    names - well, the output is, at least.

* [~/.vimrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.vimrc)

    Set the switch to More Magic.  Like the other guys (though they appear to use
    emacs), my vimrc has grown up over time, and has many little if/else cases for
    different terminals/OSes and just about every setting I like.  The only changes
    I make anymore are to global plugin settings.

    I should make it a point to say that vim's "wildmenu" is a must-have for tab
    completion on the `:command line`

        set wildchar=<tab>
        set wildmenu
        set wildmode=longest:full,full

* [~/.ratpoisonrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.ratpoisonrc)

    Not much to say here.  It's almost all keybindings.  Note that the multimedia
    key bindings take the place of mark's 'nowplaying' + ncmpc usage

    A bit interesting: I use windows at work, so it's hard to break the Alt-Tab
    usage... here's the bindings for ratpoison:

        definekey top M-Tab next
        definekey top M-ISO_Left_Tab prev

* [~/.screenrc](http://phraktured.net/config/.screenrc)

    A bit longer than the other two use, but I abuse the hardstatus line for a
    "system monitor".  This is the only really non-portable config file I keep,
    because screen doesn't have a good "if/else" mechanism to allow different
    settings depending on the machine.

    Here's something fancy.  Because I never use urxvt without screen running,
    I've bound S-PgUp and S-PgDn in urxvt to sent invalid escapes (the terminal
    does nothing but spit out gobbledygook).  I then map these escapes in screen to
    enable simplified scrolling through screen's copy mode.

        #let pgup/pgdn scroll under urxvt (see .Xdefaults)
        bindkey "^[[5;2~" eval "copy" "stuff ^u"
        bindkey -m "^[[5;2~" stuff ^u
        bindkey -m "^[[6;2~" stuff ^d

* [~/.Xdefaults](http://phraktured.net/config/.Xdefaults)

    All my colorful fancy urxvt settings (and a few for Xpdf) are held here.
    Just some important notes.  urxvt's perl extensions are fabulous.  For instance,
    `matcher` can match text patterns and make clickable links out of them.  By
    default, it's setup to handle URLs and launch them with urlLauncher.

        urxvt*perl-lib:         /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/
        urxvt*perl-ext-common:  default,matcher,searchable-scrollback
        urxvt*urlLauncher:      /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox
        urxvt*matcher.button:   1

    Also, just a note.  The above simple-scrolling in screen is done with these
    two:

        urxvt*keysym.S-Prior:   ^[[5;2~
        urxvt*keysym.S-Next:    ^[[6;2~

There's much more over at http://phraktured.net/config - feel free to check it
out.