AstonJ
I wasn’t aware ZSH has plugins until @Samjowen mentioned one in the Share an Elixir or dev-env tip a day thread!
Oh My Zsh comes bundled with plugins, which allow you to take advantage of functionality of many sorts to your shell just by enabling them. They are each documented in the README file in their respective
plugins/folder.Enable a plugin by adding its name to the
pluginsarray in your.zshrcfile (found in the$HOMEdirectory). For example, this enables therails,gitandrubyplugins, in that order:plugins=(rails git ruby)
If you’re using any, which ones?
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nicholasjhenry
My plugin selection is rather slim. I use zplug instead of Oh My Zsh’s built-in plugin system. Here’s my current setup:
The ones I use most:
slouchpie
I use the
elixirandgitplugins a lot. I love thegwipandgunwipaliases. My zsh theme works with them so I can see when I switch to a branch that has a WIP commit. I find it much better thangit stash.Doerge
Using:
I used to have a bunch more, but found that too many slows down startup/break stuff.
NobbZ
Zsh autocomple, zsh Syntax Highlight, fzf-tab, and p10k.
I think this really is about it.
dimitarvp
Same, plus
oh-my-zshand a few of its plugins. And it already feels like too much.tristan
Using antidote (https://antidote.sh/) to manage them.
My favorite is the autosuggestion one (GitHub - zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh · GitHub) – fish has similar builtin which I immediately wanted after trying fish once..
NobbZ
I used to use omz as well, though eventually it felt as if most add-ons just were some curated and opinionated aliases I didn’t use anyway, so I removed it, and managed my aliases manually from then on.