Making changes to your development setup easier

As I'm occasionally assigned new projects at work and as those projects progress, I find the need to update my development environment on a regular basis.  Having the ability to customize my setup allows me to be more productive.

To that end, I have defined a few bash aliases which help make this process easier for me.  These aliases are defined in my ~/.bash_aliases file.

#  config bash

alias   cfgb='gvim ~/.bash_aliases'

# config vim

alias   cfgv='gvim ~/.vimrc'

# source my bash aliases to pick up any new changes

alias   redot='source /home/rod/.bash_aliases'

You'll notice that I have an alias to make changes to my vim setup.  It makes sense to also have a vim macro to read any new configuration settings or vim macros.  This macro is defined in my ~/.vimrc file.

" source .vimrc ro pick up any new macros

map \.  :source /home/rod/.vimrc^M