dotfiles VS scripts

I also have a minimal version at https://github.com/mgedmin/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc, this one is used everywhere I have a shell account, where I haven't bothered to clone my full .vim.

My minimal .vimrc that I have on every server where I have an account is this: https://github.com/mgedmin/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc

https://github.com/mgedmin/dotfiles is what makes life bearable. On any machine I can ssh to, the first thing I do is

Eh, my bash prompt is a terribly overengineered monstrocity: https://github.com/mgedmin/dotfiles/blob/master/bashrc.prompt#L235

here's a Python script I use for testing 256-color support: show-all-256-colors

I try to minimize the differences from stock Ubuntu installs to as little as possible, and I try to automate the changes I make (e.g. I've a shell script that adjusts my GNOME setup using dconf load). This sometimes means that I have to participate in upstream development to get a bugfix or feature that I really want included directly upstream, so I won't have to do local builds of stuff after the next Ubuntu upgrade.

Oh! I remember now -- I created a wrapper ~/bin/ctags that updates .git/info/exclude before delegating to /usr/bin/ctags.

These days my wrapper does a bit more, since I build vim from the git repo and run it directly from the source tree by skipping the make install step (so my wrapper sets VIMRUNTIME instead).

I also have a ~/bin that I clone from https://github.com/mgedmin/scripts on some machines, where I need my helpful scripts. Some of these I run on a fresh Ubuntu install to tweak my GNOME desktop so I won't have to do that manually (250 ms keyboard repeat delay is a necessity for me, and I'd rather not try to match it exactly with a GUI slider, back when GNOME had such a slider).

I do a fresh install every time I buy a new hard drive. I keep notes to all the customizations etc. I do to my machine, so it's easier to do it again, plus I try to script things for the same reason.