dot-nvim VS dotfiles_skeleton

Lastly, if you want to use a configuration for reference, you can take a look at my dotfiles for Neovim.

So recently, I managed to make fully functioning reload and restart commands for Neovim. What they do is reload your config or "restart" (reload + VimEnter autocmd) Vim. It does that by using plenary.nvim and its amazing scan_dir function to automatically unload all lua modules, load your init.lua (doesn't work with init.vim) and then source all your plugin files. Here's the relevant part of the config that does it: https://gitlab.com/famiu/dot-nvim/-/blob/master/lua/utils.lua#L1-83

git clone https://gitlab.com/famiu/dot-nvim ~/.config/nvim

But basically it has a very galaxyline-like configuration system except there's a lot more options. I've been contemplating turning it into a plugin but I don't really have the energy to maintain one. Anyway, enough talk, the statusline is part of my neovim dotfiles, located in: https://gitlab.com/famiu/dot-nvim/-/tree/master/lua/statusline

Feel free to check out my Neovim dotfiles: https://gitlab.com/famiu/dot-nvim

You can also use my dotfiles skeleton to see, if you have different demands. https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

Personally it would have helped me to start outright with version tracking and documenting common workflows with dotfiles, for examples starting with my skeleton https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

Setup dotfiles to quickly restore broken configs. One simple options is https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton

My position is that shells should be as simple as possible and any computations and tooling besides simple arithmetic be externalized: https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton/blob/main/POSIXunsafe

I would recommend for you to start simple and incrementally improve or change plugins you dont like with dotfiles. My relative minimal dotfiles missing JavaScript lsp, debugger etc](https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles).

I dont believe there is "a best way", since requirements for dotfiles differ. For simple replications my [dotfile skeleton](https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton) using fd with ignorefiles worked fine for me.

For easy managing your dotfiles on Linux (did not test Mac) you can usw my dotfiles skeleton.

Guess then you need to minimise the config to track down the issue. Do you use dotfiles? You could use my skeleton to easily branch and reset etc.

Create dotfiles or something different for versioning You can use my https://github.com/matu3ba/dotfiles_skeleton