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Re:Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub by iokanuon on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:08PM (#10723750)
Why wouldn't it work? You can write to a symlink.

    $ touch file
    $ ln -s file symlink
    $ echo text > symlink
    $ cat file
    text
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Re:Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub by 3onyc on Saturday December 12, 2015 @02:16PM (#10723778)
Some applications write to a temp file and then move that over the old file.

One way to work around this is to symlink the entire directory.

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