dotfiles VS delta

here is my fonts.yml

i don't use/haven't updated to the more commonly-as-of-late used lua/lsp format for my config, yet, (not a requirement), so, i'll go ahead and share my nvim config file here so you can compare/reference/ignore/etc... https://github.com/walderf/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/nvim/init.vim

i have a few directory listing related aliases in my dotfiles repo, which has more aliases/etc some may find useful.

# definitely related ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini ~/.gtkrc-2.0

hehe. anyways, i'm shy. here's my butth dotfiles.-- ~/.zshrc.local and Alacritty.

to manage your dotfiles, do not pay attention to any other resource. trust me. go here: https://github.com/walderf/dotfiles

my config file, nothing special, but an example of a few options -- https://github.com/walderf/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/SpeedCrunch/SpeedCrunch.ini

and then, here's my repository, which also has instructions for the absolute best and easiest way store and track changes to these files. -- https://github.com/walderf/dotfiles

example -- https://github.com/walderf/dotfiles/blob/main/.config/alacritty/fonts.yml

Thanks for the difftastic & zoxide tips.

However, I've been using this git pager/difftool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

While it's not structural like difft, it does produce more readable output for me (at least when scrolling fast through git log -p /scanning quickly

View on GitHub

I'm currently waiting on the integration between Delta and Difftastic:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/535

Difftastic now has JSON output, whic should make it much easier to build this.

I'm surely in the minority here. I've been using Emacs for almost a decade now, but I just can't get into the Magit workflow. I've tried several times, but always end up going back to Git on the command line. I have dozens of aliases, shell integrations, a nice diff viewer[1], etc., and interacting with Git has become muscle memory. I can commit, cherry-pick, rebase, bisect, fix conflicts, etc., in a fraction of the time it would take me to navigate Magit's UI. I'm sure with enough practice, a Magit user could do this more quickly and efficiently, but honestly, with some custom-built porcelain, Git's UI is not so bad. Though this could very well be Stockholm syndrome after using it for such a long time...

For whatever reason, Magit's opinionated workflows never clicked with me. A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools. And another is the fact I don't use Emacs on all machines, and setting up Git on a remote system is just a matter of copying over my config and some shell integrations.

Also, on a more personal note, I find the cultish fanboyism whenever Magit is brought up slightly offputting. Does anyone have anything bad to say about it? No software can realistically be this infallible. :)

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

For looking at diffs I still prefer the command line though, and use delta to view diffs between commits or branches.