Editor

Your default editor for git and the terminal, and an editor whose settings live in your repo.

Default editor

Which editor you use is a personal value, in dot.toml:

editor = "zed"    # zed, code, cursor, nvim, vim or nano

dot apply editor sets git’s core.editor (zed --wait: a GUI editor waits until you close the file). config/shell/editor.zsh exports the same command as EDITOR and VISUAL, so every tool that opens an editor agrees.

Settings that live in the repo

Zed comes from config/apps.conf, and its settings live in your repo:

dot apply zed    # ~/.config/zed/settings.json → config/home/.config/zed/settings.json

The file is linked, not copied. When you change a setting in Zed, Zed writes it into the repo; git diff shows it, and you commit or discard it. If a settings file already exists, apply keeps it as settings.json.backup.

Keep settings.json plain JSON without comments: Zed rewrites the file on every change and doesn’t keep comments in place.

The same pattern works for any app’s config file: put it under config/home/, mirroring its path in your home folder, and link it (How it works).