How to properly setup Fish and version the configuration?

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I'm switching to fish from zsh and I'm struggling to find the correct way to it setup for my taste. Also adding that I want to add it to my dotfiles repository. Should I version the whole ~/.config/fish folder?

Where should I put my environment variables? Should I just add them to the fish_variables config file? I was thinking on sourcing a file ~/variables.fish for the ones I don't want to version. Is this a good idea?

I use exa and ripgrep and I like to override grep and ls with them. Can I just set aliases for them overriding like I would with zsh/bash?

I want to use it inside neovim as well and I'm using the vi keybindings. Will this conflict with neovim? If so is there a way to make the vi keybindings active only outside of neovim?

It seems most of the stuff I use is provided by vanilla fish without plugins (which I'm quite happy about). Is there any tips or must have plugins I should install?

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I have my ~/.config/fish in git, works well. I share my config over several machines, and to have host-specific settings and functions, I do this:

# machine-specific
set host_config ~/.config/fish/config.(hostname).fish
test -r $host_config; and source $host_config
set -e host_config

set host_funcdir ~/.config/fish/functions_(hostname)
test -d $host_funcdir; and set fish_function_path $host_funcdir $fish_function_path
set -e host_funcdir

I'm not a fan of universal variables. Contrary to the fish philosophy, I like configuration. I store global variables in the config.fish file.

fish aliases create functions behind the scenes, so I do that upfront. This is my ~/.config/fish/functions/ls.fish

function ls --wraps=exa
  exa --classify $argv
end

Using --wraps is helpful to tab-complete exa options while you're typing a ls command.

I don't know about neovim/fish integration.

I have oh-my-fish installed, but only for fish-logo

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