From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24133 invoked from network); 11 Apr 1999 01:33:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Apr 1999 01:33:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 8838 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 1999 01:32:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2292 Received: (qmail 8831 invoked from network); 11 Apr 1999 01:32:44 -0000 From: "Michael Barnes" Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 21:32:42 -0400 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: How do *you* sync your zsh config files? Message-ID: <19990410213242.A22352@vt.edu> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk References: <199904102357.TAA03805@ocalhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1us In-Reply-To: <199904102357.TAA03805@ocalhost>; from Timothy J Luoma on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:57:14PM -0400 On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:57:14PM -0400, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Anyone else in this situation: > > I use zsh on 6 different accounts on 4 different machines (4 different > versions of zsh, 3 different OSes) > > I'm constantly finding that I've added an alias on one account and want to > use it on the others, but the machines are not such that I could make them > identical (at least two different $USERNAMEs, and on 2 of the machines I > don't have root access.... one of them I don't even have access to 'cc' or > 'gcc' to build a more recent version of zsh). > > Does anyone else have advice on trying to keep these 4 separate accounts > somewhat in sync, so I don't have to re-write every new function over and > over again? > > I once tried a 'zlocal' file that I would keep all my local configurations, > and keep everything else current, but that didn't work. > > I'm getting to the point of dumping everything in one big .zshenv (global > config files are empty in most of these cases) but that's not really what I'd > prefer... I like having my aliases/bindkeys/completions/etc all in different > files, in case of an editing mistake in one file it is easier to locate and > fix. > > TjL > Great question, as I am in a very similar situation as to the number of accounts and OSes (4 OSes, and numberous accounts). I've been thinking for a long time about doing it over cvs since I do cvs for development, however, cvs is not installed on most of these systems (I guess I should do it being I admin these boxes :) But I would like to hear about how other people do similar things. This also pertains to other .files as well. Mike