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Installing a (read: many) custom vim plugins and color scheme and screen version and etc… stops being fun about the third time you have to log into a nameless server. That being said, there are some settings that I absolutely cannot live without; `j=gj` being a good example in vim. IMO your dot files are only useful to share if they are usable with the default software of the place you’ve shared them to. Otherwise th…
Installing a (read: many) custom vim plugins and color scheme and screen version and etc… stops being fun about the third time you have to log into a nameless server. That being said, there are some settings that I absolutely cannot live without; `j=gj` being a good example in vim. IMO your dot files are only useful to share if they are usable with the default software of the place you’ve shared them to. Otherwise th…
That's why you don't use vim, but Emacs with tramp.
Anybody who would like a decent text editor around vim key-bindings uses Emacs in evil-mode already.
Installing a (read: many) custom vim plugins and color scheme and screen version and etc… stops being fun about the third time you have to log into a nameless server. That being said, there are some settings that I absolutely cannot live without; `j=gj` being a good example in vim. IMO your dot files are only useful to share if they are usable with the default software of the place you’ve shared them to. Otherwise th…
dotfiles are pretty easy to move to a new server, no?
does the same .bash_profile/.bashrc work on different linux versions? what about macos? and now macos no longer uses bash. And what about saving .bash_history? and on and on.
there is a whole industry of shell scripts that try to help with this.
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I honestly just can't vibe with the "don't customize because you'll log into other servers" thing. To me it feels like getting told to not put nice shelves in my home because other buildings don't have them.
It completely depends on your work environment. My experience has been doing a lot of admin work and working with distributed databases. I probably spend a third of my day in servers that are not mine. So for me it just doesn’t make sense to make a lot of configuration changes, especially changes that will end up in my muscle memory. Now my personal computer does have much nicer color schemes and a few plugins for co…
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> Configuring it is starting to get old That's exactly the opposite of my experience. Since all my dotfiles are in Github, configuring new system is just a git clone and copying a few files around. I don't even use any config manager, since I rarely get new computers. Takes a few minutes max per machine (plus maybe package installs like zsh if it's not there already).
The original statement was "vim plugins" SO yeah you can have your fancy alias or whatever but I'm with the GP that adding a bunch of cool plugins that I get used to and then... perpetually can't use because 40% of my time is spent on remote machines I don't have admin on... ehh.. quickly becomes not worth it. It's like when I tried to get used to a DVORAK keyboard when I'd spend my weekdays in a school computer lab.…
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Here you go # Roaming bashrc profile function sshrc() { BASHRC=$(cat ${HOME}/.bashrc_roaming | base64 -w 0) ssh -t $@ "echo \"${BASHRC}\" | base64 --decode > ~/.bashrc_roaming; \ bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc_roaming; \ rm ~/.bashrc_roaming"; }
I was thinking of exactly that. Or maybe, for an extreme version of this, one could create a Docker image with the whole dev environment, start the container at the login, bind mount / of the host somewhere and work from there. Then Ctrl-D and it's gone.
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It completely depends on your work environment. My experience has been doing a lot of admin work and working with distributed databases. I probably spend a third of my day in servers that are not mine. So for me it just doesn’t make sense to make a lot of configuration changes, especially changes that will end up in my muscle memory. Now my personal computer does have much nicer color schemes and a few plugins for co…
> Configuring it is starting to get old That's exactly the opposite of my experience. Since all my dotfiles are in Github, configuring new system is just a git clone and copying a few files around. I don't even use any config manager, since I rarely get new computers. Takes a few minutes max per machine (plus maybe package installs like zsh if it's not there already).