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mathiasbynens / dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
https://mths.be/dotfiles
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Sym link? #516

Open briannhinton opened 9 years ago

briannhinton commented 9 years ago

In the readme you talk about how you symlink the dot files into your home directory. When I do this I'm unable to get terminal coloring, etc , and a few other things working. How are you symlinking exactly? I've tried a few methods, and the only way I have it working is by directly copy & pasting.

garethlewin commented 9 years ago

The README says:

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

So assuming you decide to clone into ~/Projects/dotfiles you would run ln -s ~/Projects/dotfiles ~/dotfiles"

briannhinton commented 9 years ago

Yeah. I did that. And I had .osx didn't run properly. (terminal colors didn't install) I assumed that was a path issue. I removed $HOME and that had zero effect. Quite a few other things didn't work either.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Gareth Lewin notifications@github.com wrote:

The README says:

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

So assuming you decide to clone into ~/Projects/dotfiles you would run ln -s ~/Projects/dotfiles ~/dotfiles"

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