Dotfiles

These are the dotfiles I use on Linux environments, mostly configuration items for quality-of-life changes for shells and command line programs.

I originally used GNU stow. I like this approach because I find it quite messy to make your home directory a git repository, and files are also deployed as symlinks, which allow configurations to be deployed as soon as you save them. It also lets you install configuration items on a per-program, or even have various independent, separate configurations for the same program. This way you deploy the configuration files for whatever you use.

I ended up making my own shell script that replaced stow because it complained too much when you wanted to deploy a file for which the destination already existed or whatever. I also made a (remote) copy script to deploy the configuration files to remote hosts, it works but still has room for improvement.

Most of the package names are self-explanatory, but I ended up doing sort of my own thing when it comes to shell configuration management:

• I use zsh on computers/servers I can have it easily installed, otherwise I'll use old trusty bash.
• I use the directory ~/.config/shell for configuration items to be used on both shells. This way I can have my aliases and shell functions working on both. My zsh and bash configurations are very minimal and they barely do anything other than setting the prompt and loading the configuration files on that directory.
• I use or have used programs such as pyenv, goenv. Loading their configuration variables would be pointless if not installed, so I made those scripts install them aswell.