Well, my experiment with emacs ended when I realized that getting the shell to work properly wasn’t going to happen unless I was willing to put some serious work in. It just didn’t seem worth it. So, I’m back to vim.

As I said before, I use yadr for my vim and zsh configuration. Lately, though, I’ve been trying to add some tmux excitement to my normal workflows and so I needed to add some additional tmux-based keybindings. Yadr has a way to do this without needing to fork it - by using a ~/.zsh.after directory with additional configuration. The problem with this, though, is that I needed to remember to update my config on both my personal and work computers whenever I made a change.

Clearly this was not exceptable. I needed to DRY up my life!

So, what I created a repo on github with my configuration files. The issue with this, of course, is that you need a way to clone the repo, but then put the files in the correct place (I also have a ~/.gitconfig.user file in there, for instance, so I can’t just clone everything into ~/.zsh.after) without having to remember where to put what. So I made a basic bash script that I run whenever I pull that symlinks the files into the correct place. Then, to keep my configuration files in sync, all I need to do is commit any changes, push it up to github, and then pull those changes down onto my other computer.

You can see the repo here if you want to get an idea of what is involved. I hope you find this technique helpful!