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I'm implementing another dotfile manager 😮‍💨

• I stopped working on dotfox because I lost confidence in the social and technical leadership for the language I was using, Nim
• dotmgr was supposed to replace it, but it grew too much in scope and it doesn't work on all platforms (Cygwin)

I've learned some things:

• Continue to use symlinks
• Continue to implement undeploy
• Continue to properly test
• Explicitly specify if file/directory
  • That way, a directory can exist at source location (with multiple choices)
• Implement interactive mode
• Implement command to interactively swap out file
• Make status updates one line

Additional Goals

• Heapless (TODO)
• Multi-platform

Summary

Config

Configure which files to manage with an INI-style file.

First, label the location of the source and target directories. All paths are relative to these

source_root_dir = $pwd/source
target_root_dir = $pwd/target

Then, come the variables. By default, $home and $pwd (relative to the file) are defined, but you can define more (TODO)

[vars]
cfg = ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}
data = ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}
state = ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}

Lastly, list your entries. There are two types:

Tags are TODO

[entry]
path = .bashrc
what = file
tags = [Bash]

[entry]
source = $cfg/X11/xinitrc
target = $home/.xinitrc
what = file
tags = [X11]