Hardcoded full paths with home directory makes it hard to share fish config across computers

[chrish42]

I'm storing most of my dotfiles (including the fish config) in a version control repository and sharing them across all my computers. I don't have the same usernames across all of them, and z stores the full path of its files (under my home dir) in fish variables, like SETUVAR Z_DATA:/Users/christian\x2ehudon/\x2elocal/share/z/data. This breaks z when I share the dotfiles to another of my computers (where my username is different). And I can't change my username to be the same everywhere, since some of these computers are work one.

It'd be nice if z worked in a way that didn't lead to this issue, by for example storing these paths relative to the home directory, or other.

[krobelus]

I'm storing most of my dotfiles (including the fish config) in a version control repository and sharing them across all my computers. I don't have the same usernames across all of them, and z stores the full path of its files (under my home dir) in fish variables, like SETUVAR Z_DATA:/Users/christian\x2ehudon/\x2elocal/share/z/data. This breaks z when I share the dotfiles to another of my computers (where my username is different). And I can't change my username to be the same everywhere, since some of these computers are work one.

It'd be nice if z worked in a way that didn't lead to this issue, by for example storing these paths relative to the home directory, or other.

I think the workaround is "don't sync your uvars file".

We should anyway get rid of using universal variables by default. Then this will happen less often.