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 ## Installation
 
-Use [GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) (`apt install stow`, etc.). The repo has a `.stowrc` which should target your home directory as the installation directory, but in some cases the `~` may not be evaluated and you'll have to specify `--target="$HOME"`.
+Use [GNU Stow][stow] (`apt install stow`, etc.). The repo has a `.stowrc` which
+should target your home directory as the installation directory, but in some
+cases the `~` may not be evaluated and you'll have to specify
+`--target="$HOME"`.
 
 Install the essentials with `stow zsh vim git`.
 
@@ -12,12 +15,22 @@ Install the essentials with `stow zsh vim git`.
 
 ### Git
 
-Most of my git configuration lives in `~/.config/git/personal.gitconfig`, which is `include`d from `~/.gitconfig`. I do this to separate system-specific configuration that may be set by automated tools (i.e. the Github CLI setting up credential managers for guthub.com and gist.github.com) from my personal, cross-platform configuration (e.g. my identity and aliases).
+Most of my git configuration lives in `~/.config/git/personal.gitconfig`, which
+is `include`d from `~/.gitconfig`. I do this to separate system-specific
+configuration that may be set by automated tools (i.e. the Github CLI setting up
+credential managers for guthub.com and gist.github.com) from my personal,
+cross-platform configuration (e.g. my identity and aliases).
 
-Keep configuration that should be synced between computers in the `personal.gitconfig` file, and after cloning the repository, consider telling Git to ignore local changes to the main `.gitconfig` file:
+Keep configuration that should be synced between computers in the
+`personal.gitconfig` file, and after cloning the repository, consider telling
+Git to ignore local changes to the main `.gitconfig` file:
 
     git update-index --skip-worktree git/.gitconfig
 
 ### KDE
 
-Files in `~/.local/share/color-schemes` come from [my repo of KDE titlebar color schemes](https://github.com/eritbh/kde-application-titlebar-themes).
+Files in `~/.local/share/color-schemes` come from [my repo of KDE titlebar color
+schemes][colors].
+
+[stow]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow
+[colors]: https://github.com/eritbh/kde-application-titlebar-themes