| ▲ | threecheese 3 hours ago | |
And then you get friends like Claude - dozens of them - which prefer to crap all over $HOME. The app ‘Conductor’ does this, and I had to uninstall it; I just can’t crack my ‘ls ~/.co<TAB>’ habit, and “nd” is juuuuuust ahead of “nf”. It *used to* be ‘~/c<TAB>’ before .claude crapped itself into existence.. | ||
| ▲ | flexagoon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
I usually treat an app putting stuff into $HOME with no reason to change that as a reason to not use the app. I've genuinely switched software multiple times because of the old one doing this. I also suggest you try xdg-ninja, which automatically scans your home directory and shows which of those directories you can change to a different location: https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja I have a big shell config file that sets proper locations for all sort of programs I use: https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/f... | ||
| ▲ | chrisweekly 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I feel you. My solution is leaning into `z` ("frecency" heuristic), and selective use of "extra" zshrc aliases. | ||