antigen VS fzf-tab

If you liked legacy antigen or antibody, and want something lightning fast, I recommend antidote (obviously, I'm biased here)

If you're into this sort of thing, antigen is a package manager for zsh plugins. I really like fzf-tab (I personally only activate fzf on a double-tab, I found it got in the way a bit as the default).

roles: - role: gantsign.antigen antigen_version: '2.0.2' antigen_redis_sha256sum: 'f47ec933b32c578abe8cb39b24e0ddd114ef5cc01b3c05bcb634859ead31493f' antigen_download_dir: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads') }}" antigen_redis_mirror: 'https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/releases/download/v{{ antigen_version }}' antigen_install_oh_my_zsh: yes users: - username: username antigen_libraries: - name: oh-my-zsh antigen_theme: name: agnoster antigen_bundles: # Bundles from the default repo (robbyrussell's oh-my-zsh). - name: git - name: docker - name: docker-compose - name: command-not-found # Syntax highlighting bundle. - name: zsh-syntax-highlighting url: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting - name: zsh-autosuggestions url: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

At some point, perhaps ~10 years ago, I was introduced to ZSH with the venerable Oh My ZSH framework. For me, this was a huge awakening because it taught me about how much shell improvements can impact your life. I gradually evolved my ZSH setup to use package managers like antigen and began to invest more in creature comforts.

I like the symplicity.

Have you thought about bundling it up so it can be installed with antigen or oh-my-zsh[0]

[0] https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/wiki/Development#notes-...

You might want to look at antigen

After that, we install the dependencies for ZSH and then download Antigen (used for managing ZSH plugins) from GitHub.

Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell.

BUT...

After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where near configured zsh.

1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager)

2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo...

4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus.

I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.

Seriously, see https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab/pull/132.

Basically I want one that works like fzf-tab, but instead of using fzf I want dmenu, I asked chatGPT to make one (I'm aware of how pathetic this sounds...) but it didn't work the way I expected

You might have better luck with finding the answer if you file an issue at https://github.com/lincheney/fzf-tab-completion. Few here are using https://github.com/lincheney/fzf-tab-completion (https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab is a much more popular alternative among zsh users).

Here is another great plugin that pairs nicely with the above.

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Yeah it's just the prefect tool for speeding up so many things in the command line. I even have Fzf pop up for tab completion with fzf-tab.

There's a popular autosuggestion extension (https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) which puts dimmed suggestions from the command history in front of the cursor. I use & like it a lot -- however it doesn't do command descriptions as in your sample picture. fzf-tab does something similar, though (https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab); I find it very useful likewise.

Just want to make sure: Have you looked into fzf-tab before starting to implement this?