dotfiles

In my case, I have things like Github Personal Access Tokens stored in my password manager and then use chezmoi's templates to populate them in my dotfiles, for example: https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles/blob/master/home/dot_zsh... This means that: 1. My secrets are safely stored in my password manager so I can share my dotfiles. 2. When I update the secret in my password manager it automatically gets updated in my dotfiles when I run `chezmoi apply`.

You can configure Hammerspoon so a hot key combination puts a window in a defined section of the screen. For example, I use Ctrl+Alt+H to put the current window in the left half of the screen, Ctrl+Alt+L for the right half, Ctrl+Alt+Enter for full screen, etc. This makes arranging your windows very fast. Full config: https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles/blob/21d0edcebaeebf0d90e...

I spent some time evaluating all the available dotfile managers a few months ago and settled on chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/ I had initially been turned off when I first encountered it, because it seemed overkill for (what appeared to me) a simple task. But the problem of managing a relatively small number of dotfiles across a relatively small number of machines with small differences between them and keeping them up to date proved to be MUCH more complex than I imagined. Copy things around by hand, and then later distributing them via source control got hairy very quickly. I finally realized all those features were absolutely necessary to manage things sanely, and once I took some time to learn how to do things with chezmoi, I have never looked back. In addition to its docs, I found the authors dotfiles repo on Github to be a great h

Yes, you can define your own template variables in the config file, for example if you include: data: category: "linux-server" in your .config/chezmoi/chezmoi.yaml file, you can then use it in your templates and a .chezmoiignore file (which is also treated as a template). A .chezmoiignore file could look like: {{ if eq .category "linux-server" -}} .windowmanager.conf {{ end -}} I use this technique myself: https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles/blob/master/.chezmoiigno...