Questions tagged [dotfiles]
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Windows Unable to Delete ._. File
I currently have a file on the root of my external hard drive simply named ._., which I am guessing was added to my hard drive after using it on my MacBook a while ago. I'm trying to delete this file ...
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How can I make "ls" show dotfiles first?
Somewhere along the way I screwed up my ls command and now I get this ordering when running
$ ls -AhHl --color=auto
-rwxr-xr-x 1 clang clang 640 Mar 1 02:46 apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
-rwxr-...
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Hide dotfiles in Windows
Is there a way to have Windows automatically hide any file that is dot prefixed (e.g. ".svn"), as it's done in Linux?
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Can I keep . and .. out of .* expansion?
I often find it annoying (or worse) when I type
command .*
in bash and the command applies to the parent directory and current directory. Is there some shell option or other configuration I can ...
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Strategy to maintain dotfiles for different OSs (i.e. osx and ubuntu)
I use a Git repository to maintain my dotfiles (vimrc, zshrc, tmux.conf, etc.). As I've two different operating systems (OSX at home and Ubuntu at work) I've dedicated a branch for each system. This ...
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Source other configuration file in gpg.conf
Is there any way to source a secondary configuration file inside the usual gpg.conf?
I'd like to share a set of common configuration options across different workstations but I also need several ...
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change mutt indicator color when hovering a new message
I want to change the color of the text when hovering a new message in mutts index.
Right now I have
color indicator color111 color236 #indicator line
and
color index color082 color237 ~N # ...
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What is the difference between .zshrc and .zshrc-e
I've recently switched to using zsh instead of bash and I installed both zsh and oh-my-zsh. while messing with my configuration I noticed that there is a file named ".zshrc-e" in addition to the ...
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zsh - differentiate between source ~/.zshrc and shell initially reading .zshrc
Is there a command or environment variable that I can test for in my ~/.zshrc that that would differentiate between when I run source ~/.zshrc to update my configuration and when the shell reads ~/....
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GNU stow. Only symlink files, not directories
I'd like to manage my dotfiles with a Git repository and stow. Here is my current repository that includes the files/directories I'd like to stow and a Makefile with the command I'm using make stow.
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Is a single dot a valid filename in Windows?
A dot (.) can be part of a file or directory name including the first and last position. On UNIX a single dot in a path refers to the current directory and can thus always be resolved to a directory ...
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How to increase the font size of the command line in vimperator / pentadactyl?
What to I insert into my .vimperatorrc to make the font size of the command line bigger?
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BitTorrent Sync - Exclude All Specific Subfolders
I want to sync up my dev folder including various project folders, each having node_modules folder inside. I would like to exclude all node_modules subfolders.
Here is an example of my file structure:...
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How can have Mutt scroll inbox line by line rather than page by page?
Is there a setting for .muttrc that I cannot find that will enable this? I'm sure this ssort of thing goes against mutt purists but I bet it can be done.
Bonus question: How can I enlarge the space(...
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How to store confidential info whilst using dot files framework
I'm trying to come up with a strategy to store my dotfiles in Git. So far, I've create a dotfiles repo on GitHub and I've thrown together an install script which simply clones the repo, then symlinks ...
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