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I'm implementing another dotfile manager 😮‍💨

I stopped working on dotfox because I lost confidence in the social and technical leadership for the language I was using, Nim
dotmgr was supposed to replace it, but it grew too much in scope and it doesn't work on all platforms (Cygwin)

I've learned some things:

Continue to use symlinks
Continue to implement undeploy
Continue to properly test
Explicitly specify if file/directory
- That way, a directory can exist at source location (with multiple choices)
Implement interactive mode
Implement command to interactively swap out file
Make status updates one line

Additional Goals

Configure which files to manage with an INI-style file.

First, label the location of the source and target directories. All paths are relative to these

source_root_dir = $pwd/source
target_root_dir = $pwd/target

Then, come the variables. By default, $home and $pwd (relative to the file) are defined, but you can define more (TODO)

[vars]
cfg = ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}
data = ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}
state = ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}

Lastly, list your entries. There are two types:

Tags are TODO

[entry]
path = .bashrc
what = file
tags = [Bash]

[entry]
source = $cfg/X11/xinitrc
target = $home/.xinitrc
what = file
tags = [X11]