phraktured.net: tags ratpoison

Config file post-o-ramas are always entertaining, at least for me. I was inspired to write this one because mark pilgrim's and neil dunn's 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

I usually start X with slim 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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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