alacritty: cleanup and restructure

Adds a README that explains how it works.
Introduces common extension prefixes to identify overlays and color sets
and makes the script output to stdout instead of to file

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.config/alacritty/README.md b/.config/alacritty/README.md
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+# alacritty config
+
+* `*.ovl.yml` :: config overlays
+* `*.color.yml` :: color overlays
+
+use `ovl.sh` to generate the final config
+
+```
+# generate default config
+$ ovl.sh papercolor_dark.color.yml > alacritty.yml
+```
+
+```
+# generate scratch term config
+$ ovl.sh papercolor_dark.color.yml launcher.ovl.yml > launcher.yml
+```
+
+`base.ovl.yml` is always included.