how to begin ?

[iurych]

Hey there, i'm Iury and i would like to know how to start with config.

I have installed nvim, tmux and others plugins in spreaded directories yet, so i think if i clone the dotfiles maybe it will conflict in my pc.
How to proceed ?

[nickjj]

Hi,

These dotfiles will install those tools and configure them in spots that follow standards around where configuration can go.

You can run it in a Docker container (the readme shows how) if you want to see what it will create ahead of time before doing it on your system.

Also, here's all of the symlinks it will create (which it warns you first), if you want to see if they conflict with anything you have:

https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/88ccc3a011e6f3ae0f31978811c70f1db6b186ff/install#L660-L694

[iurych]

thanks very much

[nickjj]

No problem, let me know how it goes.

[nickjj]

If anyone reads this, for the last few months I refactored things a fair bit to make it easier to customize the symlinks.

Now you can personalize them in install-config:

https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/3ad830dc9dd13c06acd85c9a61c0f85525d09fad/install-config.example#L114

The variable is named symlinks but nothing will stop you from using cp instead of ln so you can fully customize your configs and avoid them getting updated by these dotfiles in case you didn't want to fork the project. Quite a few tools with configs already support the idea of a "local" file that's gitignored to allow for customization without forking.