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Ovid (2709)

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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Thursday June 22, 2006

05:22 AM

The Script I've Never Written

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I am really, really tired of hopping onto a new Linux box and having to configure my .vimrc, .vim/plugin/, .bashrc, bin/, and so on. I keep meaning to sit down and write a script which will do all of that for me, but I don't for the simple reason that I really only hit this problem once every couple of years. Then when I do hit this problem, it's usually for several boxes at once. How frickin' annoying.

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cream (Score:2)

by gizmo_mathboy (782)

The cream project [sourceforge.net] looks interesting. Not perfect but does make it kind of easy to use vim (well, I do move it out of newbie mode into expert).
Version control! (Score:1)

by dlc (50)

I've been keeping my entire home directory under version control for a few years now, and it works great. When I connect to a new machine for the first time, I simply do:

cvs -d:blah:blah:blah co HOME
And I get my full home directory, with all of my configs and so on, right away. There's a small quirk though, in that this checks HOME out into a directory called HOME, but I follow it up with:
(cd ./HOME; tar cf - .) | tar xf - ; rm -fr ./HOME
This copies the CVS directories too, so update and commi

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- Re:Version control! (Score:2)
  
  by petdance (2468)
  
  I use Subversion. It has no problems being in the home directory. svn co svn+ssh://andy@svn.petdance.com/svn/home .
  
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Rsync (Score:1)

by iburrell (4155)

I just rsync the important dot files and scripts from my main desktop to the others. This works the best when everything is running Linux with similar versions.
use subversion! (Score:1)

by dagolden (6584)

# (grr, code HTML not formatting -- so I'll cheat) # I'm with Andy on this. I use subversion to sync my vimrc between machines. # Moreover, I've customized my .vimrc for both Win32 and otherwise # so I can even sync between my Win32 laptop and my linux boxen # E.g. if has("win32") let $VIMRC=expand("$VIM\\vimfiles\\vimrc") let $DESK=expand("$HOME/../Desktop") set backupdir=c:\\temp\\\\ set directory=c:\\temp\\\\ if argc() == 0
Yet another on saying... (Score:1)

by Adrian (66)

"but that's what source control is for" :-)

Go on. Now you've done it again go check all those files in now!