OK, but why? Do you do this frequently? I feel like there's a hidden assumption here that I'm just not getting. Do you have a whole ton of machines you log into on a regular basis? Where it's deeply unproductive / impossible to use the default configuration? What gives rise to this state of affairs?

> Do you have a whole ton of machines you log into on a regular basis? Where it's deeply unproductive / impossible to use the default configuration? What gives rise to this state of affairs?

I’m not the parent, but, yeah, this. I don’t have many machines that I need to connect to, but I make sure to sync my dotfiles to each of them. This gives me:

- A different shell prompt on each machine, so I’m less likely to type a command into the wrong one.

- Consistency in my shell aliases, so I never have to see “bash: ll: command not found” again. I have a lot of these, and I’d rather deal with syncing my dotfiles than re-mapping my muscle memory.

- All the helper scripts I’ve written over the last few years, so if I want to write a command and have it available everywhere, all I need to do is put it in a folder and wait for it to be synchronised.

I’ve been doing this for ages so I might be blind to some of the drawbacks, but I really like having the same terminal environment when I have to SSH somewhere else.

I'm very comfortable with my keybindings for a lot of things, particularly the way I have vim and tmux set up to work nicely together. I also have a fairly extensive zsh config using vi mode and some alternate key bindings. If I remote in to a stock machine, I can get by though.

I have about 7 different machines/VMs/VPSes/partitions I use semi-regularly, so it's nice to have the exact same setup I use everywhere.

I also don't want to have to re-create my setup every time because I won't remember all the tweaks I set up months or years ago. I'm not the kind of user who constantly tweaks their configs, I've been using basically the same configs for about three years.

> I'm very comfortable with my keybindings for a lot of things, particularly the way I have vim and tmux set up to work nicely together.

I'm the same way, and I have a similar setup. I have a public git repo with all of my custom git, vim, tmux, etc configs. It serves 2 purposes for me 1. make it easy to setup a new machine (literally run 1 command) and 2. provide a way to automatically backup configs for any machine I am on.

Everything I work on is either in git, dropbox, or I don't care about it. My goal is that I should be able to lose any computer I am working on, and be back up and running within a day.

Huh, I have about the same number. I suppose this is a matter of personal taste. Thanks for addressing my curiosity!