What is the best .zshrc config you have seen?

I was editing my .zshrc the other day and wondered what cool things people are doing with it.

Here's my config

# Created by manan for 4.4.2

#Customise the Powerlevel9k prompts
POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(
ssh
dir
vcs
newline
status
)
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=()
POWERLEVEL9K_PROMPT_ADD_NEWLINE=true
# POWERLEVEL9K_RPROMPT_ON_NEWLINE=true
# POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_DISCONNECTED_FOREGROUND='red'
# POWERLEVEL9K_BATTERY_DISCONNECTED_BACKGROUND='blue'

# Options for setting colors to directories.

# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_BACKGROUND=red
# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_FOREGROUND=white
# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_SUBFOLDER_BACKGROUND=red
# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_HOME_SUBFOLDER_FOREGROUND=white
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_WRITABLE_FORBIDDEN_BACKGROUND=yellow
POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_WRITABLE_FORBIDDEN_FOREGROUND=black
# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_DEFAULT_BACKGROUND=red
# POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_DEFAULT_FOREGROUND=white

# Load Nerd Fonts with Powerlevel9k theme for Zsh
POWERLEVEL9K_MODE='nerdfont-complete'
source  ~/Spaces/Editor-Settings/powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme

HOMEBREW_FOLDER="/usr/local/share"
source "$HOMEBREW_FOLDER/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh"
source "$HOMEBREW_FOLDER/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh"
source "$HOMEBREW_FOLDER/zsh-history-substring-search/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh"

autoload -Uz compinit;
typeset -i updated_at=$(date +'%j' -r ~/.zcompdump 2>/dev/null || stat -f '%Sm' -t '%j' ~/.zcompdump 2>/dev/null)
if [ $(date +'%j') != $updated_at ]; then
  compinit -i
else
  compinit -C -i
fi

zmodload -i zsh/complist

#History setup
HISTFILE=$HOME/.zsh_history
HISTSIZE=100000
SAVEHIST=$HISTSIZ

setopt hist_ignore_all_dups # remove older duplicate entries from history
setopt hist_reduce_blanks # remove superfluous blanks from history items
setopt inc_append_history # save history entries as soon as they are entered
setopt share_history # share history between different instances of the shell
setopt auto_cd # cd by typing directory name if it's not a command
setopt correct_all # autocorrect commands
setopt auto_list # automatically list choices on ambiguous completion
setopt auto_menu # automatically use menu completion
setopt always_to_end # move cursor to end if word had one match

zstyle ':completion:*' menu select # select completions with arrow keys
zstyle ':completion:*' group-name '' # group results by category
zstyle ':completion:::::' completer _expand _complete _ignored _approximate #enable approximate matches for completion

#Plugins setup
source <(antibody init)
antibody bundle zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle zsh-users/zsh-completions > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle /Users/manan/Spaces/Editor-Settings/ZSH-Plugins/oh-my-zsh-master/plugins/osx > ~/.zshrc.log
# antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/heroku > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/node > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/web-search > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/sudo > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/react-native > ~/.zshrc.log
# antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/kubectl > ~/.zshrc.log
# antibody bundle robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh path:plugins/npm > ~/.zshrc.log
antibody bundle JamesKovacs/zsh_completions_mongodb > ~/.zshrc.log
source /usr/local/aws/bin/aws_zsh_completer.sh

autoload -Uz compinit;compinit -i

# Aliases

alias grep=ack
alias digitalocean="ssh digitalocean"
alias ls="colorls"
alias python="python3"
alias pip="pip3"
alias easy-install="easy_install-3.7"
alias config="vi $HOME/.zshrc"
alias projects="cd $HOME/Spaces/Projects"
alias reload="source $HOME/.zshrc"

# Git aliases
alias gi="git init"
alias gs="git status -sbu"
alias gco="git checkout"
alias gcob="git checkout -b"
alias gp="git push"
alias gm="git merge"
alias ga="git add ."
alias gcm="git commit -m"
alias gpl="git pull"
alias gst="git stash"
alias gstl="git stash list"
alias glg='git log --graph --oneline --decorate --all'

# Exports
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-toolsz

export GOPATH=/Users/manan/.golib
export PATH=$GOPATH/src:$PATH
export GOPATH=$GOPATH:/Users/manan/Spaces/Projects/Go

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libpcap/bin:$PATH"

fpath=(/usr/local/share/zsh-completions $fpath)
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/icu4c/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/icu4c/sbin:$PATH"

export PYTHON3PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7
export PATH=$PYTHON3PATH/bin:$PATH

export PATH=/usr/local/aws/bin:$PATH

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/sdk/flutter/bin

# added by travis gem
[ -f /Users/manan/.travis/travis.sh ] && source /Users/manan/.travis/travis.sh

# Misc
test -e "${HOME}/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh" && source "${HOME}/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh"

# Tab title
precmd() {
  # sets the tab title to current dir
  echo -ne "\e]1;${PWD##*/}\a"
}

# Create a new react app

react-app() {
  npx create-react-app $1
  cd $1
  npm i -D eslint
  npm i -D eslint-config-prettier eslint-plugin-prettier
  npm i -D eslint-config-airbnb eslint-plugin-import eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y eslint-plugin-react eslint-plugin-react-hooks
  cp "${HOME}/.eslintrc.json" .
  cp "${HOME}/.prettierrc" .
  echo $1 > README.md
  rm -rf yarn.lock
  cd src
  rm -f App.css App.test.js index.css logo.svg serviceWorker.js
  mkdir components views 
  git add -A
  git commit -m "Initial commit."
  cd ..
  clear
  code .
}

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Comments

[Tommy Kolkman]

I've always liked adding this little snippet to my .zshrc:

sourceZsh(){
    source ~/.zshrc
    backupToDrive ~/.zshrc
    echo "New .zshrc sourced."
}

editZsh(){
    nano ~/.zshrc
    source ~/.zshrc
    backupToDrive ~/.zshrc
    echo "New .zshrc sourced."
}

backupToDrive(){
    cp "$1" /Users/<username>/Google\ Drive/Config/.zshrc
    echo "New .zshrc backed up to Google Drive."
}

So just use editZsh to edit your .zshrc and it will be safe!

When switching machines, I only have to get my .zshrc from the Drive and here we go again.

[Manan Joshi]

Hey Tommy, I actually use yadm to manage my dotfiles. They are then pushed on to GitHub here. So whenever I want to set up a new machine the only thing I need to do is just clone that repo.

[b2aff6009]

Thanks for sharing. I improved my .zshrc a lot since I saw this post. As I use my .zshrc on different machines I implemented an update before the edit.
And as I search for quite often for some strings inside of files I wrote a "find in files" function

alias findr='\fd'
#function for find strings in files
fif() {
    findr --type f $1|xargs grep -n -i  $2
}

sourceZsh(){
    source ~/.zshrc
    backupToDrive ~/.zshrc
    echo "New .zshrc sourced."
}

editZsh(){
    updateYadm
    vim ~/.zshrc
    source ~/.zshrc
    backupToDrive ~/.zshrc
    echo "New .zshrc sourced."
}

updateYadm() {
    yadm pull
}

backupToDrive(){
    yadm add ~/.zshrc
    yadm commit -m "updated .zshrc"
    yadm push
    echo "New .zshrc backed up to yadm."
}

[AlexisFinn]

Nice, I usually just version my entire Home directory, the process being to first add a .gitignore with * so that by default everything is ignored, and then I can force-add whatever I want to version (remember gitignore doesn't apply to anything that is already versioned).
That way I can also version my fonts folder, background-images folder and whatnot.

[Luis Martinez Suarez]

Duh.... that is a great idea!!

[Tommy Kolkman]

D'oh! I should've known something like this exists - I'm gonna dive into that, thanks!

[Heiker]

I think most people just install oh-my-zsh and forget about .zshrc. Is what I did at first. So I think the first place to look is the oh-my-zsh repository, they have some really useful stuff in the plugins folder.

This are my favorite.

# Use - to go back to previous directory
alias -- -='cd -'

# Taken from the tmux plugin
alias ta="tmux attach -t"
alias ts="tmux new-session -s"
alias tl="tmux list-sessions"

# Keybindings

autoload -U up-line-or-beginning-search
autoload -U down-line-or-beginning-search

# [Space] - do history expansion
bindkey ' ' magic-space

# start typing + [Up-Arrow] - fuzzy find history forward
bindkey "${terminfo[kcuu1]}" up-line-or-beginning-search

# start typing + [Down-Arrow] - fuzzy find history backward
bindkey "${terminfo[kcud1]}" down-line-or-beginning-search

They do a little bit of magic in another file to make sure terminfo has a value.

I actually uninstalled oh-my-zsh and kept what I needed. The zsh specific stuff is here. And what is (mostly) POSIX compliant is here.

[Manan Joshi]

I 100% agree with this I think most people just install oh-my-zsh and forget about .zshrc.

[José Landero]

I was one of those until today, I'd never thought about how handy could be to have some aliases here and there

[Manan Joshi]

I am not 100% certain if aliasing actually saves some time but it sure does save you some keyboard clicks.

[Gergely Polonkai]

I use fish.

But before i switched, i used a plain oh-my-zsh with some plugins made by myself. I really liked it, and occasionally miss it. However, despite a few quirks, i don’t regret switching to fish for my interactive sessions; scripting is still better in good old bash or, if portability is a must, plain sh.

[Manuele J Sarfatti]

I love your react-app shortcut!

[Manan Joshi]

Thanks a lot

[Roman Perepelitsa]

FYI: There is powerlevel10k now.

[AlexisFinn]

Nice, but why ? The project says it's a drop-in replacement for powerlevel9k but then why not just use the original ? It's still active as far as I know so is there some sort of issue why I would want to use the replacement ?
This is an honest question, and if the answer turns out to be why-not, well I'm down with that answer as well, after all that's the beauty of open-source.

[Roman Perepelitsa]

The project says it's a drop-in replacement for powerlevel9k

Not quite. Here's what it says:

Powerlevel10k can be used as a fast drop-in replacement for Powerlevel9k.

• Fast: Powerlevel10k is over 10 times faster than powerlevel9k when using the same configuration options.
• Can be used as a drop-in replacement rater than is a drop-in replacement: Powerlevel10k has many extra features not found in Powerlevel9k.

[powerlevel9k is] still active as far as I know

I guess this depends on one's point of view. Commit activity graph shows last commit in March.

[AlexisFinn]

Cool. Thanks for the quick reply and insight on the differences between the two projects.
I'm quite a sucker for 'fast' and lightweight, so now I'm going to have to try it.

[Louis]

It would be very cool to see what your terminal looks like! Could you attach a screenshot that shows the result of your configs?

[Manan Joshi]

Sure Louis here it is.