[…] things like installing, upgrading and deleting them up to me. I actually wrote a lengthy post on how I set up my environment so there is no point repeating it here. I admit that it is not the simplest way of doing things. […]

Nice post :)

When adding && pulling git submodules you should do it recursively! Try this instead of your solution:

git submodule update –init –recursive

Best Regards!

Luke Maciak wrote:

@ STop:
In fact, if you rename _vimrc to .vimrc on windows, it will still work.

Wow! Didn’t know that…

@ STop:

:D

STop wrote:

What I don’t really get, is why Moolenaar changed the dot-file thing on other platforms. AFAIK, most other *nix apps that have been ported to mainstream platforms, do fine with dot-files and directories.

Me neither. I guess the problem is that explorer.exe won’t let you create a file or folder name that starts with a dot. I guess this was the impetus behind the change. But yeah, it makes little to no sense once you realize that as long as you don’t use explorer to create these files/folders (use cmd.exe, cygwin, git bash, your own homegrown code in any language) they will work just fine.

In fact, if you rename _vimrc to .vimrc on windows, it will still work.

I’m slowly getting the hang of vim (your fault!)… I may try this sometime…

What I don’t really get, is why Moolenaar changed the dot-file thing on other platforms. AFAIK, most other *nix apps that have been ported to mainstream platforms, do fine with dot-files and directories. Furthermore, most Windows-centric editors (like notepad++) handle dot-files with no issues, so why?

As a footnote: I have been using symlinks for ages to “synchronize” configs and data on dual-boot desktops (usually Linux-Windows). It works fine with Firefox, Thunderbird, Google Earth and Dropbox, among others. Of course, git would bring it to another level…

karthik wrote:

I think if I ever lost my .emacs I wouldn’t be able to do anything on Emacs

This is actually something I hear quite often. Apparently there no one true Emacs – there are just millions of hyper-customized Emacs environments tailored to people’s specific needs. :) I think Steve Yegge once wrote like a 50 page blog post on this topic.

@ karthik:

Yeah, Chris does some very interesting stuff on his blog. I love the embedded video instead of a picture thing. Very subtle but freaky effect.

@ astine:

Make sure you at least back them up. :)

I need to someday organize my emacs files. It’s on my todo list, but behind lots of other worthy causes.

@ Chris Wellons: You have a *very* interesting website! Subscribed.

As karthik said, very similarly we Emacs users have ~/.emacs.d/ as a convenient repository root, with init.el replacing ~/.emacs. That’s exactly what I have checked into Git here,

https://github.com/skeeto/.emacs.d

One of the first things I do on any new computer is clone that. After manually setting HOME, this also works properly in Windows.

What about Windows? Windows sucks.

Indeed.. Indeed…