I try to maintain a consistent work environment across computers that I use. The computers differ for important reasons, but I’d rather they not differ for unimportant reasons. Unified keys One thing I do is remap keys so that the same key does the same thing everywhere, to the extent that’s practical. This requires remapping keys. In particular, I want the key functionality, not the key name, to be the same across operating systems. For example, the Command key on a Mac does what the Control key does on Windows and Linux. I have my machines set up so the key in the lower left corner, whatever you call it, does things like copy, paste, and cut. Unified config files I use bash everywhere even though zshell is the default on Mac OS. But Linux and MacOS are sufficiently different that I have two .bashrc files, one for each OS. However, both .bashrc files source a common file .bash_aliases for aliases. You can set that up by putting the following code in your .bashrc file. if [ -f…
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