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		fps on Sept 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles I keep all my dotfiles in a directory called "~/dotfiles" and symlink just my .bashrc. everything else gets reconfigured via aliases. eg. `alias vim='vim -u /home/derf/dotfiles/vim/vimrc' alias tmux='tmux -f /home/derf/dotfiles/tmux/tmux.conf'` http://github.com/fredsmith/dotfiles

transfire on Sept 5, 2013 [–]

Isn't that a lot of work? And I doubt it will work for everything. Some programs don't give you an option to get configuration from non-standard location.

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