Re: Online Desktop integration ideas

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Havoc Pennington">

> Obviously these products would not have .emacs, the idea of copying .emacs
> is to help us dogfood the user experience - make the developer workstation
> setup more like the ideal product setup.

> Don't get me wrong, I don't want to make dealing with .emacs and .ssh the
> primary focus (and it hasn't been so far). I think it's useful though.
> We'll see I guess, if someone tries to code it.

I dunno dude, this is actually something I've been thinking about a fair bit
since leaving Sunny Birmingham. It came from roughly the same concern: won't
boring file synchronisation be relatively pointless and arse (aside from the
goal of having configuration sycned)?

Then I thought about potential collaborative systems around dotfiles and the
possibility of doing a similar thing around more structured/secure data like
~/.ssh... Needs more thought -- since leaving Sunny Birmingham I have mostly
been stuck on planes and trains -- but there's room for something cool here.

- Jeff

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