NOnoitpmeder·Apr 10, 2022
For those that aren't aware, ZGEN (https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen) is the best of both worlds. Pick and choose from every plugin system out there.
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A lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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6 sourcesYou probably mean powerlevel10k[0], although that's mostly a replacement of powerlevel9k, which is only one of the (theming) plugins that oh-my-zsh commonly handles.
As for a replacement for oh-my-zsh itself, I had good experiences with zgen[1] but the fastest I've found is zim-fw[2] which produces acceptable start times for me[3].
[0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/
[1] https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen
[2] https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw/
[3] https://i.imgur.com/mPPQuyh.png
In The fish shell is amazingI'd do that as a zsh plugin. If you do one that's oh-my-zsh compatible, it'll work with most of the frameworks, and you can install it by hand if you're running bare ZSH.
Then they just need to occasionally `git pull` to get updates to your company script collection.
I wrote a brief set of guidelines at https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins/blob/master/W...
If you have them use a ZSH framework, (I recommend https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen for load speed), the good ones can handle the periodic pulls for you automagically.
In Show HN: Z shell configuration, zsh startup files, when they load, what they doI like using a different plugin manager with OMZ.
https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen
If you use a lot of addons, this can load up prompts faster without losing any OMZ goodness.
In Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?Looks good. You should separate this into another repo with a README. I use zgen [1], a package manager with ZSH which lets you add libraries via github repos. That way I can keep it up-to-date without manually checking in on the project.
Also your [3] link is broken.
https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen
Edit: any way to import the existing .zsh_history?
In Historian: Because Please Stop Deleting My Bash HistoryZgen – a lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH
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