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These are my dotfiles. There's many like them out there, but these ones are mine blah blah blah something or other

I manage these using chezmoi. I've tried many methods over the years, from manual symlinking (hell!) to using GNU stow (annoying) to using Nix's home-manager (entirely different kind of hell), and chezmoi is what works for me with the least amount of headache.

So to install on a fresh laptop:

$PACKAGEMANAGER install chezmoi zoxide nushell
chezmoi init ssh://git@git.insects.institute:insects/home.git # or HTTPS URL if you're not me hehe
chezmoi apply
source $nu.env-path
source $nu.config-path
# from here on out, see what breaks and fix it!

A short list of what's included in here:

• fish, which is my shell
• emacs, while I use Zed for a lot these days, Emacs remains the best Lisp interaction mode, hands down
• A barebones vim config
• git and hg configuration
• Configuration for things I use very rarely (helix, nushell, nix, alacritty)