GitHub - aprilb/.dotfiles: Personal unix dotfiles

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bin		bin
dzil		dzil
tmux-vim @ 950bbf4		tmux-vim @ 950bbf4
uselect @ be9fd1e		uselect @ be9fd1e
vim		vim
.gitignore		.gitignore
.gitmodules		.gitmodules
README		README
ackrc		ackrc
ansicolorrc		ansicolorrc
bashrc		bashrc
bashrc.macosx		bashrc.macosx
bashrc.perl-local-lib		bashrc.perl-local-lib
bashrc.strat-perl		bashrc.strat-perl
colordiffrc		colordiffrc
gitignore		gitignore
gvimrc		gvimrc
inputrc		inputrc
install.sh		install.sh
minicpanrc		minicpanrc
screenrc		screenrc
sqliterc		sqliterc
tmux-vim.conf		tmux-vim.conf
tmux-vim.ini		tmux-vim.ini
tmux.conf		tmux.conf
tmux_colors.sh		tmux_colors.sh
unsolarized.sh		unsolarized.sh
uselectrc		uselectrc
vimrc		vimrc

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My haphazard collection of dotfiles.

    http://sdt.github.com/.dotfiles/

The dotfiles themselves all lives in a .dotfiles subdirectory, to avoid my
whole home directory tree being a git repo.

There's three basic strategies to get various programs to use a dotfile outside
the usual place. In order of preference, they are:

  1. ~/.programrc includes ~/.dotfiles/programrc

    This of course requires the dotfile have some kind of include mechanism.

  2. Environment variable: PROGRAM_CONFIG=~/.dotfiles/programrc

  3. Shell alias: alias program='program --config-file=~/.dotfiles/programrc'


The included install.sh takes care of setting up the first form. It tries to be
idempotent, but should not be fully trusted.

The other forms are set up in bashrc.