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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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I've also written a fair amount of scripts. The highlights include:
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* asciify: convert many non-ASCII characters to their nearest ASCII counterpart.
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* bsdman: read *BSD man pages.
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* crun: quick way to execute C files.
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* dataindex: create index of hierarchies. Useful to keep track of folder content
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and structure.
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* ediff: diff with Emacs.
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* einfo: info viewer with Emacs.
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* elisp: Emacs Lisp interpreter using Emacs.
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* git-*: some git helper functions for sync and so on.
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* homeinit: initialize a new home configuration, i.e. get needed files, create
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symlinks, etc.
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* imagemount: a CDEmu/fuseiso wrapper that creates/deletes virtual drives
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automatically.
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* mover: move and merge folder into destination.
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* pac*: pacman helper functions.
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* pdfctl: PDF manipulation, e.g. extract pages, compress, resize to A4.
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* pkglister: generate lists of installed with pacman, FreeBSD's pkg and tlmgr
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(TeX Live manager).
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* tc-video-*: batch conversion of any kind of videos. Using FFmpeg.
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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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Dotfiles can be managed in different ways.
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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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