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This is why we have dotfile repos.

i’m like 60% sure that this is why nixOS was born at all: some very dedicated emacs or vim user got so fed up with moving configs around that they built an entire package manager/distro/thing to solve their config issue for all time.

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Except that Nix doesn't manage your home directory! (though some folks have put together some less-than-prime-time solutions).

That's actually something that's a major hole for me; it would be like twice as useful if it did. But yeah, my solution is just: https://github.com/zenhack/vim-config

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