[gknoy]

I really like this article's suggestion to leverage plugins instead of custom code, and to look carefully at what _modern versions_ of your software (editor, shell, etc) have feature parity with.

This mirrors something I noticed recently when snooping on a friend's dotfiles repo. I have this unholy collection of things that make sure bash saves my history, my prompt Doesn't Suck, with helps git/etc/etc -- and it's a nightmare because I have yet to untangle it enough to post on github. In contrast, my coworker uses zshell, and uses a plugin for it that basically adds _nearly everything I might want_ out of the box, and as sensible defaults, so their config is much simpler and easier to get started.