Oh My zsh

http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

by fogus • 16 years ago

41 28 16 years ago

dreur• 16 years ago

Personally I use ZshKit : http://github.com/dreur/zshkit

cageface4• 16 years ago

I once had a fairly elaborate zsh setup but over the years I've gradually migrated back to a more minimalistic bash environment instead. The dwim of some of the more exotic zsh completion functions just didn't seem to save me that much time in practice.

akkartik3• 16 years ago

git's completion especially has gotten so elaborate that it takes too friggin' long. And my shell's frozen while I wait. I just disabled it.

But why would you switch back to bash? Even if you don't use some of the advanced zsh features?

cageface4• 16 years ago

Bash is everywhere. It's simple. It's predictable. It just works. It does the things I need it to do. If you use the bash-completion functions in Debian you can even get pretty extensive completion features.

Symmetry• 16 years ago

Ah, I was sort of hoping to find that someone had made a theme with syntax highlighting as useful as fish's.

marshally• 16 years ago

I currently use oh-my-zsh on a daily basis, but recently I've been thinking about switching back to the plain old bash shell. I have been frequently stung when new libraries come out that only support bash.

pilif3• 16 years ago

For those wondering about the advantages of ZSH over, say, bash: ZSH was first to add programmable completions (and still comes with a huge library of these), many more configuration options, history merging and much more.

It also has a huge library of built-ins (even an FTP client).

People could call it bloated, but I see no difference in performance from Bash, so for me personally, that argument is moot.

What really made ZSH gain a spot in my heart though, is the user-friendly user's guide at

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/

This is how I learned to use the Unix shell back in 2000. It's not just a brilliant introduction into ZSH itself, it also contains a lot of information about the Unix shell in general and all written in a way that a non-Unix user can easily understand it and very quickly learn all that's needed to be productive on the command line.

Using that guide and ZSH, I learned the Unix shell, so I never bothered to go back to Bash.

Besides, being able to do

scp fi<tab> servern<tab>:/so<tab>

to have it completed to

scp file servername.example.com:/somepath

is just brilliant.

Same goes for contents of tar.(g|b)z(ip|2) archives. Or git commands. Or svn commands.

It's wonderful.

Sorry. Being a fanboy here.

chousuke• 16 years ago

I have to agree, zsh is a great shell. My only gripe with it is that compiling it on OS X is a pain in the arse because it depends on a weird documentation language called "yodl" which I haven't so far managed to install. It has some weird custom build system that doesn't seem to work.

It's a shame since I'd like the up-to-date git completions, but because I can't compile zsh I'm stuck with release versions :(

ptomato• 16 years ago

Have you checked out homebrew? Similar to macports/fink except much, much better, available here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

In particular, their recipe for zsh compilation might help you even if you don't want to install brew itself: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/...

pilif3• 16 years ago

I'm very happy with the MacPorts package myself:

    pilif@celes ~ % which zsh
    /opt/local/bin/zsh
    pilif@celes ~ % echo $ZSH_VERSION
    4.3.10
    pilif@celes ~ %

building the port went flawlessly

akkartik3• 16 years ago

For me the really compelling reason to use zsh is that it's "like bash, but without the gotchas." For example, $* just works, even if the args have spaces. You don't have to think about "$@" which still doesn't work sometimes.

zokier• 16 years ago

To be fair, now days even bash manages to tab complete lots of stuff like ssh/scp, git and aptitude. And yes, it's wonderful :)

j_baker• 16 years ago

Am I the only one who gets the impression people are saying "Take a shower, hippie" under their breath every time I mention to others that I'm using zsh?

pilif3• 16 years ago

Yeah. I kind of get the same feeling. But I stopped worrying about the various religious wars and I just use the tools I like.

ZSH is the shell I learned Unix with. ZSH is the shell I know best and thus can do the most awesome stuff with. Hence I'm using ZSH.

Others might have the same feelings towards bash. I totally accept that und usually don't try to "convert" people. But I'm also immune against their efforts in converting me.

tednaleid• 16 years ago

I do something similar to this and have the majority of my zshrc version controlled and publicly available.

http://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/shared-zshrc

I put together a blog post on how to use it along with some descriptions of specific aliases/functions that I find really useful:

http://naleid.com/blog/2009/05/13/shared-zshrc-file/

Global aliases are one of the things I love about zshrc. In addition to that, the file globbing is a huge productivity benefit. Being able to use "/foo.txt", rather than "find . -name foo.txt" is nice.

I think that everyone should also learn the cursor movement keybindings (which default to the emacs ones instead of vi ones). I think these might be the same in bash (where C is control and M is meta, likely alt/option or escape):

* C-r - search backwards through history

* C-a - beginning of line

* M-b - move back one word

* C-b - move back one letter

* C-f - move forward one letter

* M-f - move forward one word

* C-e - end of line

* C-s - search forwards through history

mxavier• 16 years ago

This will be great. I've been using zsh for probably a year now but I'm definitely underutilizing it. vi mode for zsh seems to be better implemented in zsh and thats something I could definitely not survive without.

Oh My zsh

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