Maybe I'm a little conservative about what to pull into my environment, but I'm definitely invested in conforming all the configuration files in my environment to have the same bindings and color scheme. To such an extent that some of my dotfiles run on a template system[0] (I've since seen many do this, even if just through pywal) to be able to change global colors in a single place.

When I initially wrote such a system, I thought I would be reloading themes all the time[1]! How wrong I was -- in the past few years I've settled into one theme and refine as my tastes develop. But it's still nice to be able to enact these changes from a central location. Naturally I pay for this with a complexity cost, including hosting "rendered" dotfiles[2].

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I don't want to care about how a program is configured, as long as I CAN configure it, and it's worth doing so. And if it is, the magic of open source allows me to bridge to it however I like (via scripts/templates), and then I can forget about it.

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Tying into the OP of this thread, I created a stow clone called stOwO [3] which has the luxury of assuming the dotfiles repo location, and doesn't create directory level symlinks like stow does. It's been OK so far.

[0] see the readme: http://noriceno.life
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/commen...yesterday/
[2] https://github.com/neeasade/dotfiles/tre...s/rendered
[3] https://github.com/neeasade/dotfiles/blo.../bin/stowo