Do you use any ZSH plugins?

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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 plugins array in your .zshrc file (found in the $HOME directory). For example, this enables the rails, git and ruby plugins, in that order:

plugins=(rails git ruby)

If you’re using any, which ones?

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My plugin selection is rather slim. I use zplug instead of Oh My Zsh’s built-in plugin system. Here’s my current setup:

zshplugins via zplug:

- vi-mode (from oh-my-zsh)
- wbase.zsh + git-prompt.zsh (woefe’s git prompt)
- zsh-autosuggestions
- zsh-completions
- zsh-history-substring-search
- zsh-syntax-highlighting

The ones I use most:

  • zsh-autosuggestions - suggests commands as you type based on history
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting - highlights commands in real-time to catch typos
  • zsh-history-substring-search - searches history with partial matches (I have it bound to up/down arrows)
  • git-prompt.zsh - shows git status in the prompt
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I use the elixir and git plugins a lot. I love the gwip and gunwip aliases. 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 than git stash.

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Using:

ZSH_THEME="agnoster"
[...]
FZF_BASE="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/fzf/0.54.3/"
[...]
plugins=(git fzf zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions)
[...]
# zsh VIM
source $(brew --prefix)/opt/zsh-vi-mode/share/zsh-vi-mode/zsh-vi-mode.plugin.zs

I used to have a bunch more, but found that too many slows down startup/break stuff.

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Zsh autocomple, zsh Syntax Highlight, fzf-tab, and p10k.

I think this really is about it.

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Same, plus oh-my-zsh and a few of its plugins. And it already feels like too much.

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zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-users/zsh-completions
Aloxaf/fzf-tab
mrjohannchang/zsh-interactive-cd
goarano/zsh-fzf-packagemanager

ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh path:plugins/per-directory-history

Using antidote (https://antidote.sh/) to manage them.

My favorite is the autosuggestion one (GitHub - zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh) – fish has similar builtin which I immediately wanted after trying fish once..

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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.

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