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Do you have to drag your .vimrc and plugins along every time you set up a new code space? My vim setup is pretty bespoke, it would be annoying to have to set th

Do you have to drag your .vimrc and plugins along every time you set up a new code space? My vim setup is pretty bespoke, it would be annoying to have to set that up every time.

EduardoBautista 5y ago
I once had a setup where I could just clone a repository and run a script to get my dotfiles set up. For Vim, I would just need to then run the command to install the plugins and that was that. Edit: Here is the CLI program that helped me set this up: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
wincent 5y ago
You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codespace/personalizing-codespaces-for-your-account#dotfiles https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes... I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (https://github.com/wincent/wincent https://github.com/wincent/wincent), so I made a thin wrapper around it that makes it work (https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles). For people with less complicated set-ups (ie. basically the entire universe), it is pretty straightforward.
__MatrixMan__ 5y ago
It's totally worth taking the time to sync your dotfiles via git. There's a little bit of maintenance involved whenever you make a config change on one system that you want to propagate elsewhere, but it pays off. Personally, I just `git init && git remote add ...` in my home directory and have a .gitignore that ignores everything by default, so I have to `git add -f` whenever I want to sync a config. Submodules work well for `.vim/bundle/the-plugin`. It's also nice for syncing important zsh customizations like this one: https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/home2/blob/master/.zsh_functions/bitch https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/home2/blob/master/.z... There are also other strategies: https://dotfiles.github.io/ https://dotfiles.github.io/

Do you have to drag your .vimrc and plugins along every time you set up a new code space? My vim setup is pretty bespoke, it would be annoying to have to set that up every time.

EduardoBautista 5y ago

I once had a setup where I could just clone a repository and run a script to get my dotfiles set up. For Vim, I would just need to then run the command to install the plugins and that was that. Edit: Here is the CLI program that helped me set this up: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

wincent 5y ago

You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codespace/personalizing-codespaces-for-your-account#dotfiles https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes... I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (https://github.com/wincent/wincent https://github.com/wincent/wincent), so I made a thin wrapper around it that makes it work (https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles). For people with less complicated set-ups (ie. basically the entire universe), it is pretty straightforward.

__MatrixMan__ 5y ago

It's totally worth taking the time to sync your dotfiles via git. There's a little bit of maintenance involved whenever you make a config change on one system that you want to propagate elsewhere, but it pays off. Personally, I just `git init && git remote add ...` in my home directory and have a .gitignore that ignores everything by default, so I have to `git add -f` whenever I want to sync a config. Submodules work well for `.vim/bundle/the-plugin`. It's also nice for syncing important zsh customizations like this one: https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/home2/blob/master/.zsh_functions/bitch https://github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/home2/blob/master/.z... There are also other strategies: https://dotfiles.github.io/ https://dotfiles.github.io/