Hi HN! I’m Rahul, an engineer at Fig, and I led the development of Dotfiles.
Our goal was to build a structured editor[0] for shell dotfiles - with a keyboard-driven editing experience that is as fast as a traditional text editor, while offering more guidance.
We built this because in the process of onboarding users to autocomplete[1], we saw first-hand how much difficulty many developers have managing their shell configuration.
Once you get the hang of it, editing configuration files, like your .zshrc or .bashrc, unlocks a lot of powerful customization. However, there is a substantial learning curve.
When you manage your dotfiles using Fig, your development environment follows you across devices, operating systems and even between different shells. Any changes you make sync automatically. And, if you want, you can easily share your shell configuration - aliases, environment variables, scripts & more - across your entire team.
I’d love to hear what you think about this new approach to dotfiles! This is our first release, so there is definitely room to improve.
PS. Dotfiles is free for individual use and for open-source projects!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor [1] https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete