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  • lelgeniotoLinux@lemmy.mlHow could GNU Stow help me with my configuration files?
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    That’s all stow does, there’s nothing more to it. If you need some other feature don’t waste your time trying to make it work with stow, It’s just a meme in my opinion.

    About the “package manager” functionality, stow was originally supposed to be a development tool for the Perl programming language, you download a bunch of libraries into a directory, then use stow to merge those files into the root of your project (like a caveman), as it turned out some people started using it to manage dotfiles, and here we are.

    When I started trying to organize my dotfiles, I started with stow, but quickly found it very limited.

    After that I found dotdrop, which is considerably more involved, but gives you total control. My config with dotdrop quickly started growing insanely huge, at some point I even had system-wide systemd services declared.

    Then I found out I was basically reinventing nixos and home-manager, so I switched to that.








  • Long-ish time Kakoune user here.

    For those who have tried Kakoune, once you’ve included things like Treesitter and the clangd language server, which one feels faster, Kakoune or Neovim?

    I never felt the need to install something like Treesitter because I feel selection-based editing is already powerful enough, if that gives you an idea of how much faster I am with Kakoune compared to Neovim. Maybe I just don’t know everything Treesitter can do 🤔

    which apparently allows you to have one master Kakoune instance and multiple slave instances that would be in sync

    https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/eebefbca-a314-4473-b61e-2bbf7691a99c.png

    It’s not a master/slave setup, it really is client/server, even the first instance of kakoune that you open will be a client that you can close without the other instances going down with it.

    I’m not sure if Kakoune shares the clipboard with all of those instances?

    Yup, all shared: registers, buffers, marks, hooks. (You can choose not to share stuff between clients)