How do I keep shell things out of dotfiles but loaded cleanly?

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Closed croaky closed 12 years ago

croaky commented 12 years ago

For example, I have this:

# RVM
[[ -s '/Users/croaky/.rvm/scripts/rvm' ]] && source '/Users/croaky/.rvm/scripts/rvm'

It's in ~/.zshrc, which is a symlink to what's in dotfiles. I don't want to accidentally commit it into dotfiles. Where should it go?

jferris commented 12 years ago

I put those kinds of things in ~/.zshenv.

croaky commented 12 years ago

Awesome, thanks. Updated the documentation to make that suggestion: