dot

What

Portable dotfiles.

Why

Problem:

• Runing round re multiple machines
• Want to have a consistent environment on each machine
• But don't want to pollute each machine with dotfiles all over their harddrive

Solution:

• A lot of the tools I use (Emacs, bash, vimm...) accept config files as command line options
• So write one file contain all my configs which dumps them all /tmp/$USER/...
• And write a little shell that writes the calls to these tools such that those tools are called with those config files

Usage

• Download the dot file;
• sh dot
• To run emacs with the options in the dot file,
  • Use e filename
• To tweak the configs,
  • edit dot
  • type reload or restart via control-d then sh dot.

Updates

There is an update function that will download (and overwrite) the local dot function. Will wipe any tweeks you've added to dot. Use with care.