bypurple good. I already have cohost set up like this and I should be able to pick some nice (not necessarily all the same, but in theme) purples for all my linux stuff.
which results in things like "hey what the fuck neovim plugin do I have that makes it have nice per-file tabs (https://github.com/vim-airline/vim-airline, as it turns out)
forming the policy that everything in my config files should either be immediately understandable from the setting itself (a shaky criteria), or else be explained for future me / whoever uses my dotfiles. and that includes listing out what every plugin does. yeah you could just look them up on github, but also I am not squabbling over kilobytes here. I can just write it in the file.