zsh-autosuggestions VS starship

zsh-autosuggestions

+1 on oh-my-zsh

I recommend Oh My Zsh with the zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins.

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

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

And my custom theme ;) https://github.com/whyboris/dotfiles/blob/main/yboris.zsh-th...

> FISH - mainly because of it's excellent auto-completion that displays as you type.

Said functionality for zsh:

* https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

zsh autosuggestions (really fun plugin that gives realtime suggestions for terminal commands)

My personal favorite is a combination of zsh-autosuggestions and binding up arrow to up-line-or-beginning-search. Then you just start typing and either the history item you want is previewed, or you can search with your current input by pressing up repeatedly.

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

.sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Is anyone else mostly rolling with the zsh (not oh-my-zsh) defaults?

After so many years of using Bash I switched to zsh almost a year ago. I use the vanilla zsh set up with 2 plugins:

- https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... for very good and fast syntax highlighting

- https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for auto-suggestions

I don't use a plugin manager, instead I put together a ~20 line shell script[0] which handles either cloning or pulling plugins, then you can load them in your zshrc[1].

I haven't found the need for anything else and my whole dev environment is based on using tmux, terminal Vim, etc.. Basically I spend a lot of time there in my day to day.

[0] https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/0076e508403c9981e393...

[1] https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/0076e508403c9981e393...

the info in the bar like "on branch x with uncommitted changes" if I'm not mistaken this can be done with the Starship prompt

I know Starship Prompt is written in Rust and is a cross-platform, single config file prompt replacement for the terminal. Could be a cool place to start.

Thanks, it's called starship

A lot of the prompt settings I’be now replaced with the more universal starship project: https://starship.rs, but OMZ still has a hell of a lot to offer.

It makes for a lot more confusing $PS1, but might fix the problems. Another alternative is to use a prompt 'tool', where you create 'segments' and the program does the rest for you, for example starship.

sharship: it is a shell prompt that is minimal, customizable, and really fast. I am beginning to use it in all of my shells even on my fiancé's Mac.

fish shell + starship:https://starship.rs/

I prefer https://starship.rs/ as prompt btw :-)

I switched from zsh/oh-my-zsh to fish mostly because fish does everything I want for an interactive shell and is simply one package from my package manager away.

With frameworks like oh-my-zsh I'm always worried about supply chain attacks.

I do use https://starship.rs (which is also a package away), and I think things like fisher https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher are useful when you need a specific fish script.

Setup starship to look badass