Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

t0mbstone wrote: post #4

Pretty sweet collection of zsh shortcuts and tips. Who cares if it's old, if it's still relevant? Is there something out there now that is better than zsh?

No one has yet implied that it's irrelevant because it's "old".

However, my view is that we are generally chronological beings at heart, and knowing the year that something was posted (if it wasn't the current year) is a useful to aid in determining whether we may have seen it before or whether it may be particularly relevant to our interests.

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Post by raverbashing » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 7:23 PM UTC

oh-my-zsh is really good. The only thing I needed to do was set DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="false" which is a default that really makes no sense

Also find a theme that works for you

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Post by fish_fan » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 8:16 PM UTC

t0mbstone wrote: post #4

Pretty sweet collection of zsh shortcuts and tips. Who cares if it's old, if it's still relevant? Is there something out there now that is better than zsh?

Fish is pretty sweet. The biggest annoyance IMHO is that you have to use env to set environment variables inline to execution.

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Post by ben174 » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 8:20 PM UTC

> alias 'devmount=mount_smbfs //ome:ch1cag0@localhost:10139/ome /Users/$USERNAME/Projects/devvm/'

Whoooops...

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Post by zan5hin » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

ben174 wrote: post #8

> alias 'devmount=mount_smbfs //ome:ch1cag0@localhost:10139/ome /Users/$USERNAME/Projects/devvm/' Whoooops...

Provided access to a VM (@localhost). Not as big a whoops as you would like.

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Post by kuschku » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

I use powerline-shell in zshell, and was also extremely annoyed by the delay.

So, I decided to rewrite https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell in go, and the performance is amazing.

The latency went down from several seconds to 200µs (except when git is used, then it’s ~4ms), and it’s fast enough.

The repo is at https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go. Here’s a small video showing just how different the latency is: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/2017-08-21_16-43-41.mp4. Disclaimer: Although the original was MIT, I licensed my rewrite under GPLv3.

Improving the latency of software is just such an amazing quality-of-life improvement, it was well worth those 10 hours of work.