byobu removes/rewrites symlink ~/.byobu/status

At the moment, I think you can achieve this by setting an environment variable:
BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR=/home/user/.dotfiles/byobu
This should also make the symlink unnecessary.

Alternatively it might also work to just symlink:
/home/user/.byobu -> /home/user/.dotfiles/byobu
if that works for you.

Sorry, both of those will be equivalent and mean all files in ~/.byobu are in your .dotfiles folder. Shouldn't post when I'm tired! :)

Andrew is pretty much right, though I just committed one bit of code to help you out.

As of byobu-4.53, you should be able to put:
 export BYOBU_CONFIG_DIR=/home/user/.dotfiles/byobu
in ~/.byoburc.

And it should handle your use case for the whole directory. I don't think I want to get into a per-file basis.

Committed revision 1806.

Well, I do not want to change the path to the config dir, but there appears to be just a problem with the "status" file itself.
Other files are also symlinked and do not get rewritten by regular files:

% l ~/.local/share/byobu
color@ disable-autolaunch keybindings@ profile@ profile.tmux@ reload-required status statusrc@ windows

Committed revision 1821.

I am re-opening this, because the `--follow-symlinks` option to `sed` might be a better option here.

Please feel free to close it again, if you think the current solution is good enough.

OTOH I think `readlink` is tricky regarding portability IIRC, and should be avoided.

I'm using $READLINK, which is set to either readlink or greadlink, for portability.

I'd like to leave it as is. Thanks.