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Hm. At first I was pretty reluctant about settings "following" users, but a good Vim feature might be built-in syncing to some web service (DAV, S3, git, etc.). Run some function when you start (like fetchsettings) that will query for endpoint, username, password, and boom.

Something like that would be a bit better than what I'm doing now, which is just keeping a dotfiles repo that lives on github. Since password authentication is no longer allowed, and I need certain config stuff in there to stay relatively private, I have to do the public key dance to get started. The one benefit there is allowing diverging changes on different machines, and good control of what you push back to the store.



I just have my .vimrc and plug-ins in a Github repository. I also have a minimal, no plug-ins required version.

Now that I think of it, maybe I should put it on my website so I can curl it onto a server if there is no git available.


You can just curl main.tar.gz which has a predictable url




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