I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Just switched to prezto yesterday, I doubt I'll be looking back.
Oh My Zsh
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#12For a cheap laugh, mention this tool on #arch-linux IRC. They get extraordinarily mad. I guess I get why, but it's still funny.
For a cheap laugh, troll people.
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#13I love oh-my-zsh but am confused why this is news... it's been around for years, almost everyone I know in OSX either uses it or has used it at some point in the past. I do love it though!
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#14I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
It's weird, when I started using oh-my-zsh, everyone complained about its performance but it worked swiftly for me. Now after a year I can see the problem, even though I didn't change anything in the config. It's still acceptable on my desktop, but annoying to use on the server.
Been using oh-my-zsh for years, haven't had a single problem with it. Not sure what's going on where people are having so many problems with it being slow.
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#15I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
It's weird, when I started using oh-my-zsh, everyone complained about its performance but it worked swiftly for me. Now after a year I can see the problem, even though I didn't change anything in the config. It's still acceptable on my desktop, but annoying to use on the server.
What I've mostly noticed with it being slow is anything that might accidentally trigger it trying to ssh to another machine to get an autocomplete list. Since it won't maintain that connection it can cause it to happen multiple times while you're trying to tab complete different pieces. I imagine other similar problems with slow file systems or ones with a lot of latency (nfs?) might cause problems. I haven't noticed it elsewhere so maybe there's something I'm just not hitting.
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#16I love oh-my-zsh but am confused why this is news... it's been around for years, almost everyone I know in OSX either uses it or has used it at some point in the past. I do love it though!
Pretty sure it's because of fish appearing on the front page today.
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#17I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used.
oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).
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#18I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used. oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).
Thanks for the heads up, looks like I'll pass on prezto...
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#19A lot of people who get started with zsh get overwhelmed with the OMZ addon system and its huge ecosystem.
I wrote a simple but high quality and clearly documented .zshrc which should get anyone interested in zsh started. I like what the OMZ project is doing, but I actually recommend against it - it's slow and frankly unnecessary, as long as you have a good starting base.
Available here with screenshot and documentation:
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#20I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used. oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).
I write scripts in bash, because most people probably aren't using zsh or have zsh installed. Also, when you feel like losing the magic, you can escape commands by prefixing them with backslash (i.e. \cat vs cat).