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dotfiles
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
I really like this method as opposed to using a bare Git repository. For one, it's conceptually simpler in my mind; you don't have to understand Git internals to get this working. Secondly, this lets you pick and choose which config files you want to "install" on a machine.
I feel obligated to share my Bash script, dotfiles.sh[1], that accomplishes what Stow does, but with a few tweaks that I found particularly useful:
dotfiles.sh targets the user's home directory by default (i.e. stow -t $HOME).
dotfiles.sh never symlinks directories, only files (i.e. stow --no-folding). (This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me roll my own script in the first place.)
dotfiles.sh makes backups of local config files and can restore them if you remove your symlinked version.
My script is quite old now, and I use it so seldomly I'm not convinced there aren't bugs. YMMV.
[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dotfiles
zinit
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zinit VS zinit - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 1 Nov 2021
- Zinit suddenly missing from Github?
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github repo is missing
I just searched github for the latest fork, and it looks like the most recent fork is https://github.com/ryanstreur/zinit. I went ahead and forked it just in case and I have a version locally that I pulled down at Oct 12 17:12 PST. All zinit forks are showing as being forked from https://github.com/akatrevorjay/zplugin since https://github.com/zdharma/zinit is gone.
- s/bash/zsh/g
- How do I enable this on vscode terminal on macOS
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New to Mac entirely, and somewhat to DevOps. Any suggestions on getting started moving from primarily Windows/Linux? Given a MacBook Pro 2019 16"
I personally prefer zinit to oh my zsh. Lets you use all the oh my zsh plugins without downloading everything (I think that's how it still works?), lets you manage outside plugins in the same way, and is really fast to boot.
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How do you lazyload or delay loading plugins? Improving zsh and other questions (Or maybe my config is broken)
zinit has a turbo mode to load plugins asynchronously
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Zsh Plugin managers
https://github.com/zdharma/zinit/pull/492 Documentation enhanced.
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Anyone interested in ZINIT documentation?
In particular, I am curious about your opinion on part document structure.
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Can zsh look give you suggestions by looking at manpages?
Usage sample (using zinit) GENCOMPL_FPATH=$HOME/.cache/zsh-completion-generator if [ ! -d "$GENCOMPL_FPATH" ]; then mkdir -p $GENCOMPL_FPATH fi fpath=($GENCOMPL_FPATH $fpath) zstyle :plugin:zsh-completion-generator programs fzf zinit wait'3' lucid for RobSis/zsh-completion-generator
What are some alternatives?
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
zplug - :hibiscus: A next-generation plugin manager for zsh
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
zsh-snap - ⚡️ Znap! Fast, easy-to-use tools for Zsh dotfiles & plugins, plus git repos
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
dot.me - me dot files
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
vcsh - config manager based on Git
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
bashdot - Minimalist dotfile management framework.
sheldon - :bowtie: Fast, configurable, shell plugin manager