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1.8 KiB
Org Mode
63 lines
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Org Mode
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# .dotfiles
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## Overview
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I use of Emacs for almost everything, including my window manager (EXWM). See
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my [Emacs pro-tips](http://ambrevar.bitbucket.io/emacs/).
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As such, the more-or-less advanced configurations of my former favourite Unix
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programs are gone (Awesome, cmus, fish, fzf, Mutt, newsbeuter, ranger, urxvt,
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zathura, zsh). You can search for them before the git commit `README: The Big
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Emacs Shift`.
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## Setup
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For the list of programs I currently use, see the `.pkglists/` folder.
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The `homeinit` script fully bootstraps a user profile with required files,
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folders, symlinks applications.
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The `homeclean` script removes trash files, caches and warns if critically
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private data is found (e.g. PGP keys).
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The `homesync` script updates the package lists, prints the status of all known
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projects and optionally pushes the unmerged changes upstream.
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As for managing a dotfiles repository, there are various approaches.
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### Direct versioning
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Git makes it possible to use your home folder as a git repo, thus versioning
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all files directly.
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cd
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git init
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git remote add origin <repo>
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git fetch
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git checkout master
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### GNU Stow
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[GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) lets you symlink a project's
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files to an arbitrary folder.
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The simplest setup would be to clone the dotfiles to, say, `~/dotfiles` then run
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cd ~/dotfiles
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stow .
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This has several advantages over direct versioning:
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- Subfolders in home are not subject to being included into the dotfiles git
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repository. This is especially relevant for projects under a version control
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system other than git.
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- No need for a `.gitignore`.
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- Simplified file control (add/remove/etc.).
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- You can fine-tune which program configuration to synchronize on a per-system basis.
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- You can manage several configurations for the same programs.
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