Better zsh with Prezto

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Better zsh with Prezto ☶ linux wikimatze.de
authored by wikimatze 2 years ago | cached | 10 comments

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I haven’t been a user of the oh-my-zsh because I found it too complicated. I was only interested in it’s completion features. Therefore I ripped out this component, copied the completions from it and did the configuration on my own.

Then I tried fish-shell but wasn’t satisfied. It lacks completion but has very good autosuggestions and amazing VGA terminal colors for certain types of commands.

prezto jumps in here - it’s an optimized version of oh-my-zsh. It is fast, has completions out of the box, and the nice autosuggestions feature of the fish-shell.

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brinker 2 years ago | link

I use antigen, and have been happy with it. I know there are better performing options, but the performance of antigen has never been a limiting factor for me. It provides the features of oh-my-zsh out of the box, but does more and is easier to work with.
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  emallson 2 years ago | link
  
  The big win of antigen for me is being easily able to version my .zshrc, because now loading the modules I depend on is just a list of antigen commands.
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    brinker 2 years ago | link
    
    I actually keep my zsh configuration (as well as all my other dotfiles) in a carefully maintained git repo. My .zshrc simply looks for every *.sh file in my ~/.zsh folder and sources each one. I split my configuration into three folders: aliases, completions, and config, each doing exactly what you’d expect.
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      wikimatze 2 years ago | link
      
      Jup, I have a git repo for all my dotfiles. I’m sourcing completions and some libs in my zshrc.
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  wikimatze 2 years ago | link
  
  Never heard of it, thanks for mentioning.
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jfb 2 years ago | link

I use fish, but I’m not a zillion percent happy with it. It lives in an uncanny valley for me, because it’s different enough from the borne shell lineage that my fingers break when I try to write for loops; but it’s similar enough that it fundamentally doesn’t really make the shell better. Or rather, it doesn’t make using a shell better enough.
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  wikimatze 2 years ago | link
  
  Had a similar experience that’s why I switched back.
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benoliver999 2 years ago | link

The main thing that keeps me away from fish (and zsh iirc) is the lack of rsync tab completion. I don’t know how people manage without it…
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  LeahNeukirchen 2 years ago | link
  
  Works fine with the default included zsh completions.
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  ssl 2 years ago | link
  
  I’m not sure where, but it’s included somewhere in this config I just default to using.
  
  http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=etc/zsh/zshrc;hb=HEAD