Faster ZSH with zsh snap

2021-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Intro</h2>
Although not as ubiquitous as bash, zsh has many advantages over it. While fish is an even better shell than zsh, it does not offer the same level of run any script ™ advantage like zsh.

Plugins Managers</h2>
To get the features offered by fish and more, people have created many plugins to make life easier. But who manages all these plugins ? Ofcourse the plugin managers. People new to ZSH are commonly introduced to oh-my-zsh</a>, an excellent software, easy to use, and integrates easily with most plugins. But after some time, as the number of plugins increase, the shell startup time increases. This is the major pain point of using this framework. Many plugin managers were created to alleviate this pain point. One of which I used is zinit</a>. Although it is a great plugin manager, it had a complex and very elaborate syntax. Though I stuck to it for some time, I recently found out zsh-snap</a>
Enter zsh-snap</h2>
Znap (short for zsh-snap) provides you all the advantages of zinit minus the complexity. Here is a snippet of my zsh configuration
source ~/.znap/zsh-snap/znap.zsh # Prompt znap eval starship 'starship init zsh --print-full-init' znap prompt # Completion functions fpath+=( ~[ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh]/plugins/{docker,fd,ripgrep} ) znap compdef _rustup 'rustup completions zsh' znap compdef _cargo 'rustup completions zsh cargo' # Plugins znap source zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions znap source zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting znap source wfxr/forgit znap source sorin-ionescu/prezto modules/{environment,history} znap source ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh 'lib/(*~(git|theme-and-appearance).zsh)' plugins/{git} # Evals znap eval zoxide "zoxide init zsh" # -- snipped -- </code></pre>
Recent plugin managers seem to embrace the idea of time to value (loading the prompt first) and let the user use a shell while loading the plugins asynchronously in the background. The same behavior can be seen in the config as well. We first load the prompt (I use starship</a>), then install some completions, load a few plugins, run some inits, and done! Znap takes care of caching and will intelligently store data without running all commands on every run.
Znap also offers good compatibility with wide range of plugins (Just be careful of the order in which you load plugins). Love something in oh-my-zsh or prezto? You can use the libs/plugins just like any other plugins.
Plugins</h2>

zsh-autosuggestions</a> - Gives hints based on your history.</li>
zsh-syntax-highlighting</a> - Why should programming langs have all the ~~fun</del> colors ? Adds syntax colors for zsh commands.</li>~~
forgit</a> - Forget Git ! Adds some flavour to git.</li> </ul>
Here is my "shell" tour:

Hemanth Bollamreddi

Faster ZSH with zsh snap

Intro</h2>
Although not as ubiquitous as bash, zsh has many advantages over it. While fish is an even better shell than zsh, it does not offer the same level of run any script ™</strong> advantage like zsh.</p>

Hemanth Bollamreddi

Faster ZSH with zsh snap

Intro</h2> Although not as ubiquitous as bash, zsh has many advantages over it. While fish is an even better shell than zsh, it does not offer the same level of run any script ™</strong> advantage like zsh.</p>

Intro</h2>
Although not as ubiquitous as bash, zsh has many advantages over it. While fish is an even better shell than zsh, it does not offer the same level of run any script ™</strong> advantage like zsh.</p>