Merge eddb356fee into 011e9767d6

README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Includes autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom functions, a few stolen pieces
 1. Check a clone of this repo: `git clone https://github.com/revans/bash-it.git ~/.bash_it`
 2. Run `~/.bash_it/install.sh` (it automatically backs up your `~/.bash_profile`)
 3. Edit your `~/.bash_profile` file in order to customize bash-it.
+4. Run `$ edit` and edit this file to have bookmarks to the files you edit over and over again
 
 **NOTE:**
 The install script will also prompt you asking if you use [Jekyll](https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll).

aliases/available/general.aliases.bash

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ alias c='clear'
 alias k='clear'
 alias cls='clear'
 
-alias edit="$EDITOR"
 alias pager="$PAGER"
 
 alias q='exit'

install.sh

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ cp $HOME/.bash_it/template/bash_profile.template.bash $HOME/.bash_profile
 
 echo "Copied the template .bash_profile into ~/.bash_profile, edit this file to customize bash-it"
 
+# TODO: this should be tested more.
+cp $BASH_IT/template/FILES.template $BASH_IT/custom/FILES
+echo "Copied the template FILES into $BASH_IT/custom/FILES, edit this file to have bookmarks to file you 'edit' often"
+
 while true
 do
   read -p "Do you use Jekyll? (If you don't know what Jekyll is, answer 'n') [Y/N] " RESP

lib/helpers.bash

@@ -353,3 +353,48 @@ all_groups ()
     cat $file | sort | uniq
     rm $file
 }
+edit () {
+	FILES=$1
+	if [ -z "$FILES" ] 
+	then
+		$EDITOR $BASH_IT/custom/FILES
+	else
+		$EDITOR $FILES
+	fi
+}
+
+archive () {
+	FILE=$1
+	BASEFILE=$(basename "$FILE")
+	TODAY=$(date --rfc-3339=date) 
+	TARGET="$TODAY--$BASEFILE"
+
+	if [ -z "$FILE" ]  
+	then
+		echo "move a file  in the '$ARCHIVE' directory, timestamping it with $TODAY"
+		echo "Syntaxe : archive <file>" 
+		return 1
+	fi
+	if [ -d "$FILE" ]
+	then
+		echo "sorry, archive doesn't work for directories"
+		return 2
+	fi
+	if [ ! -r "$FILE" ]
+	then
+		echo "Cannot read  file '$FILE'" 
+		return 3
+	fi
+	if [ -z "$ARCHIVE" ] 
+	then
+		ARCHIVE=$HOME/archive
+	fi
+	if [ ! -r "$ARCHIVE" ] 
+	then
+		 mkdir -p "$ARCHIVE"
+	fi
+
+	echo "Archiving '$FILE' in '$ARCHIVE'"
+	/bin/mv -- "$FILE" "$ARCHIVE"/"$TARGET"
+}
+

template/FILES.template

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# This file is opened with you type 'edit' without argument
+#   $  edit
+
+# Simply edit this file and put you have bookmarks to the files you edit most
+#
+# You don't need anymore to go to the same directory and open the same files again and again
+# How to open the file is then trivial 
+# - With vim, see :help gf
+# - With xxx, do yyyy
+# - If your text editor doesn't have that feature, simply copy and paste
+
+# When you call edit with arguments, edit is simply a shortcut to EDITOR
+#   $ edit /etc/fstab
+
+# edit those files as root
+/etc/apt/sources.list
+/etc/fstab
+/etc/hosts
+/etc/hosts
+/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf
+/etc/profile
+
+# edit those files as a user
+$BASH_IT/aliases/custom.aliases.bash
+$BASH_IT/lib/custom.bash
+$BASH_IT/plugins/custom.plugins.bash
+$HOME/.bash_profile
+$HOME/.vimrc
+$HOME/.emacs
+
+# See here for inspiration of what you can put here
+http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Files

template/bash_profile.template.bash

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+# Set where your want to archive your files with the archive command
+export ARCHIVE=$HOME/archive # default
+
+# Set the XDG_* environnment variable
+# See http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
+export XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share
+export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
+export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
+export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.cache
+# export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=we won t set this for you, read the spec
+# export XDG_DATA_DIRS=we won t set this for you, read the spec
+# TODO : those directories should be created if they don't exist
+
+
 # Load RVM, if you are using it
 [[ -s $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] && source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm
 
@@ -41,5 +55,6 @@ export SCM_CHECK=true
 # https://github.com/xvzf/vcprompt
 #export VCPROMPT_EXECUTABLE=~/.vcprompt/bin/vcprompt
 
+
 # Load Bash It
 source $BASH_IT/bash_it.sh