Emacs (+ org-mode) friendly dot-files.
Simple replication with minimal dependencies via homeshick.
Literate Programming allows you to pair a prose description of code with the code itself.
There are several Literate Programming frameworks, and the one we're making use of here is known as Babel.
This project tracks dot-files written in org-mode with Babel extensions. Hence the name.
To be useful to a computer, the configuration files need to be
separated from prose descriptions. This is achieved using
GNU Make and emacs in batch mode.
Once separated, the resulting dot-files land in a directory named
home/, and this qualifies them to be a homeshick
Castle.
This means that dot-files are backed up online and their contents are easily synchronized between computers.
Homeshick lets you synchronize dependencies with just bash and git. This minimal set of pre-requisites means it's easier to get started in alien environments.
dot-files, as a whole, tend toward gigantic, rarely cultivated, and monotonically increasing in size. If you can build them in an environment that supports literate programming you'll easily have an explanation for anything you've added.
Use emacs to edit the .org files. Run make to translate to pure
dot-files underneath home/. Commit both simultaneously.
Create new .org files. Update the makefile accordingly.
I run the following commands:
git clone git://github.com/andsens/homeshick.git $HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick
source "$HOME/.homesick/repos/homeshick/homeshick.sh"
homeshick clone https://github.com/jedcn/dot-org-files
And then you can add additional castles like so:
homeshick clone https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
Finally, you'll end up with this:
$ homeshick list
dot-org-files https://github.com/jedcn/dot-org-files
homeshick git://github.com/andsens/homeshick.git
oh-my-zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh