Support for multiple config files in the config directories

[pekp]

I have multiple computers. I want them all to use nearly the same helix configuration. Therefore I set up a shared git repository for configuration files and each computer has a checkout of the helix branch in ~/.config/helix/config.toml. Any time I modify something about my helix configuration, I do a git push in that directory, and the change immediately becomes available on all my computers.

However, the computers have different operating systems, different terminals, and different keyboards. It would be extremely practical if it was possible to have a secondary (local) configuration file that is specific to the respective machine and its characteristics. In my specific case that file would not be shared by git, it would just be another file in the ~/.config/helix/ directory.

Example:

Machine A with Ubuntu

A:~/.config/helix/config.toml # Helix configuration that I want everywhere
A:~/.config/helix/config_gnome_terminal.toml # configuration specific to Gnome Terminal

Machine B with MacOS has

B:~/.config/helix/config.toml # Helix configuration that I want everywhere
B:~/.config/helix/config_alacritty.toml # configuration specific to Alacritty
B:~/.config/helix/config_mac_keyboard.toml # configuration specific to the Mac keyboard on MacOS

Machine C with Arch has

C:~/.config/helix/config.toml # helix configuration that I want everywhere
C:~/.config/helix/config_alacritty.toml # configuration specific to Alacritty

This would work nicely with git sparse checkouts.

[BiscuiTech]

I have the same challenge. As time goes on, I have more and more little nuggets of config that are dependent of the OS.
I'm starting to think that we won't see this implemented in hx - ever. Or maybe as a plugin? But again, we've been waiting on plugins for years at this point.

If your config files are fetched from a dotfile repo, and sensibly are shared across OS'es, maybe it'd be best to think of a config setup akin to Nx. Currently I'm using a flat dotfile installed as a bare git repo. It works, but for these cases, maybe having a programmable config file would be best.

I've been meaning to try out https://volllly.github.io/rotz/. There's some functions for OS config. There's a few out there for sure, but this one seems dead simple.

[tpm-cd]

The secondary config just adds a bunch of key/value pairs? Or you have more complex needs like overriding base values?

In the simple case, maybe we could try to setup a hx alias with the --config flag to read a concatenation of both files using your shell's process substitution capabilities?