What if I told you you don't really need a Zsh plugin manager?

• pz

  3 28 4.8 Shell

  Discontinued The fast, native, Zsh plugin manager [Moved to: https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote] (by mattmc3)

If we copy pz's code and paste it in zshrc, can we call it plugin-manager-less? 😛

• zed

  4 20 3.8 Shell

  ZSH Plugin Manager (by MunifTanjim)

I think most people built these zsh plugin managers because it's a fun little project. I did one too: zed 🤷🏼‍♂️

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• zsh-autosuggestions

  134 29,589 3.0 Shell

  Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

  

if [[ ! -e ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting ]]; then git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting fi if [[ ! -e ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions ]]; then git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions fi autoload -Uz compinit compinit PS1='%F{green}%n@%m%f %F{blue}%~%f%# ' source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

• zsh_unplugged

  5 300 6.3 Shell

  🤔 perhaps you don't need a Zsh plugin manager after all...

After antibody was deprecated last winter and the recent zinit debacle, I got to thinking - why do I even need a Zsh plugin manager? Thus, I have created zsh_unplugged to show you how you can clone and source Zsh plugins lightning fast with one simple Zsh function.

• zsh-syntax-highlighting

  72 19,053 5.9 Shell

  Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

  

if [[ ! -e ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting ]]; then git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting fi if [[ ! -e ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions ]]; then git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions fi autoload -Uz compinit compinit PS1='%F{green}%n@%m%f %F{blue}%~%f%# ' source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

• zgenom

  10 327 4.7 Shell

  A lightweight and fast plugin manager for ZSH

Have you had a look at zgenom?

• zinit

  24 2,304 8.2 Shell

  🌻 Flexible and fast ZSH plugin manager (by zdharma-continuum)

  

👉 https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit

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• chezmoi

  59 11,639 9.7 Go

  Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

I use chezmoi dotfiles manager for this

• alias-tips

  1 0 0.0 Python

  An oh-my-zsh plugin to help remembering those aliases you defined once (by Crandel)

• zsh-defer

  7 289 4.4 Shell

  Deferred execution of Zsh commands

I use zsh-defer for lazy plugin loading and I fork all plugin repos to avoid the same situation as with zinit

• .dotfiles

  22 603 7.0 Scheme

  :fireworks: Arch Linux with i3 / nvim / tmux / urxvt / zsh / ... (by Phantas0s)

It depends of the plugin. For example, for bd I've created a simple file where I source the plugin: https://github.com/Phantas0s/.dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/plugins/bd

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