https://github.com/ambrevar/dotfiles

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https://github.com/ambrevar/dotfiles

dotfiles emacs eshell evil exwm guix guixsd helm keymap mu4e shell-scripts

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ambrevar/dotfiles
• Owner: Ambrevar
• Created: 2015-11-07T09:05:33.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-06-20T07:35:50.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-16T07:24:58.454Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: dotfiles, emacs, eshell, evil, exwm, guix, guixsd, helm, keymap, mu4e, shell-scripts
• Language: Emacs Lisp
• Homepage: https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/dotfiles
• Size: 2.74 MB
• Stars: 84
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# .dotfiles

## Overview

I use of Emacs for almost everything, including my window manager (EXWM).  See

my [Emacs pro-tips](http://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/emacs/).

As such, the more-or-less advanced configurations of my former favourite Unix

programs are gone (Awesome, cmus, fish, fzf, Mutt, newsbeuter, ranger, urxvt,

zathura, zsh).  You can search for them before the git commit `README: The Big

Emacs Shift`.

## Setup

For the list of programs I currently use, see the `.pkglists/` folder.

The `homeinit` script fully bootstraps a user profile with required files,

folders, symlinks applications.

The `homeclean` script removes trash files, caches and warns if critically

private data is found (e.g. PGP keys).

The `homesync` script updates the package lists, prints the status of all known

projects and optionally pushes the unmerged changes upstream.

As for managing a dotfiles repository, there are various approaches.

### Direct versioning

Git makes it possible to use your home folder as a git repo, thus versioning

all files directly.

	cd

	git init

	git remote add origin 

	git fetch

	git checkout master

### GNU Stow

[GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) lets you symlink a project's

files to an arbitrary folder.

The simplest setup would be to clone the dotfiles to, say, `~/dotfiles` then run

	cd ~/dotfiles

	stow .

This has several advantages over direct versioning:

- Subfolders in home are not subject to being included into the dotfiles git

repository.  This is especially relevant for projects under a version control

system other than git.

- No need for a `.gitignore`.

- Simplified file control (add/remove/etc.).

- You can fine-tune which program configuration to synchronize on a per-system basis.

- You can manage several configurations for the same programs.