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Please provide a way to change settings without modifying the repository #1384
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I've been told that the trick with talon files is that more specific matching always wins. You can override the settings file by adding a more specific tag. There is also an open pull request which changes many settings to talon list files that can be overridden #1382 |
I think there are various ways of solving this problem and this is evidence that this is a real issue for some. |
Adding some documentation to the README to explain how to use the talon list files to override things such as modifier keys (#1477) |
I also added a pull request to the contributing guidelines to suggest a way to provide settings that will be a little more friendly to folks who are not forking the community repository: #1482 |
Edit: ignore this I made a mistake I tried the option @ekuiter gave, but that doesn't work for me on macOS because Python fails in
This should avoid breaking anyone's existing set-up but also allow these files to be commited in a repo. I can raise a PR for this, but won't bother if it will be rejected. |
You don't need to modify the repo - I have it working without modification based on my dotfiles on macos: https://github.com/jaresty/mac-dotfiles |
Edit: ignore this I made a mistake You're doing this with symlinks (created by the
It's failing on:
because I created a symlink pointing from Here's my GitHub |
I've been running with symlinks without issues for a while. This is the link I set up:
Are you making the same symlink or doing something different? |
Can you try using ls on your symlink to verify you can follow the link? |
Yes, user incompetence I'm afraid! I thought I had checked this but clearly not as I had it pointing to the wrong place. |
Currently, the talon settings file is committed to this repository. If I want to change those settings that are committed to the repository I need to deal with uncommitted changes or maintain my own branch. Some options that could work:
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