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The AI set up his editor his way, once, for all four of his machines

Told the AI which plugins and settings he wanted in Neovim; now has a single-file setup used across four machines, and the AI bundled gitbutler-cli from source for him.

How it works

  1. He tells the AI which plugins and settings he wants
  2. Now has a single-file setup used across four machines
  3. The AI also builds a git tool from source into it

Why it’s worth knowing

Editor config is a week of evenings, compressed to a telling.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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