I think Emacs has been shielding me from dotfiles. I usually start a shell in the directory of the file I'm looking at. I hardly ever see $HOME. I also have dir

I think Emacs has been shielding me from dotfiles. I usually start a shell in the directory of the file I'm looking at. I hardly ever see $HOME. I also have dired (Emacs' built-in file explorer) show me hidden files by default, but there aren't that many (basically just .git and .gitignore) outside of $HOME.