Oh my ZSH with zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autocomplete.md

Oh my ZSH with zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autocomplete.md

Oh my zsh.

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install plugins.

• autosuggesions plugin

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

• zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

• zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting plugin

  git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting

• zsh-autocomplete plugin

  git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

Enable plugins by adding them to .zshrc.

• Open .zshrc

  nvim ~/.zshrc

• Find the line which says plugins=(git).

• Replace that line with plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting fast-syntax-highlighting zsh-autocomplete)

References

• Oh my ZSH
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting
• zsh-autocomplete

Thanks for writing it down.

My friend turned me onto zsh & omz recently, love this write up thank you!

If I may have everyone's attention, I'm looking for a way to have aliases being suggested to me while I'm typing a full command. Does anyone know a way to do this? So far I have only found omz plugins alias-tips and alias-finder, but those only show the alias tips after the command has been executed, which usually goes off screen with the command's output and requires scrolling back to see them.

e.g.

 ↳  git
Alias tips:
g=git
ga='git add'
gb='git branch'
gc='git commit --verbose'
gd='git diff'
gf='git fetch'
gg='git gui citool'
gl='git pull'
gm='git merge'
gp='git push'
gr='git remote'

I'm not sure that you want g for git... ;)

If I may have everyone's attention, I'm looking for a way to have aliases being suggested to me while I'm typing a full command. Does anyone know a way to do this? So far I have only found omz plugins alias-tips and alias-finder, but those only show the alias tips after the command has been executed, which usually goes off screen with the command's output and requires scrolling back to see them.
e.g.

 ↳  git
Alias tips:
g=git
ga='git add'
gb='git branch'
gc='git commit --verbose'
gd='git diff'
gf='git fetch'
gg='git gui citool'
gl='git pull'
gm='git merge'
gp='git push'
gr='git remote'

I'm not sure that you want g for git... ;)

I agree with you. That alias is part of the Oh-My-Zsh plugin. If I typed ‘git’ and I saw ‘g’ as a proposed alias I would likely delete it right away.

Anyway, it looks like I’ll have to develop the feature I want by myself. That’s part of the beauty of it, right?

101%! Open sauce, hot dog! Out of interest, are you working on a port, or customisation for your own needs? Either way, I highly recommend checking out; starship.rs = best wishes! :)

Do we want to mix all of those? Aren't some of them competing?

or complimenting?

@mrhassell I do not know, that's why I'm asking 🙂 I'm all for them complimenting each other.

this is so amazing

in the end of .zshrc add these lines to stop zsh-autocomplete from overriding <- and -> keys to make the menu cursor move

bindkey -M menuselect "^[OD"   .backward-char # ←
bindkey -M menuselect "^[OC"    .forward-char # →
bindkey -M menuselect "^[b"    .backward-word # ⌥ + ←
bindkey -M menuselect "^[f"     .forward-word # ⌥ + →
bindkey -M menuselect "^A" .beginning-of-line # ⌘ + ←
bindkey -M menuselect "^E"       .end-of-line # ⌘ + →

now it will move inside the command itself, hope this helps!

Thank you so much for your help.

This is the most useful gist I've seen in a while! Ty!

For what use both plugins zsh-syntax-highlighting and fast-syntax-highlighting instead one of them?

Woww thanks

Thanks <3

Thank you for the write-up and easy to install commands, I have installed this on all my linux machines and each time it's cut-and-dry copy-and-paste commands, thank you!

I find fzf-tab to be better than zsh-autocomplete. You can't use both as it collides.

refer to this gist if you wanna use fzf for autocomplete

https://gist.github.com/seungjulee/d72883c193ac630aac77e0602cb18270

no tedious web search and works instantly, thank you

Nice, but it's slowing down the system, and I'm not sure why. There's a lag when I enter commands in the terminal. By the way, thanks for accommodating this in one gist.

I have created a script to automate this process, check here
https://github.com/MNMaqsood/oh-my-zsh-installer/

Again ! It has never been so uncomplicated. Congratulations to you, n1snt

great!!

This is just amazing!!

When I go to my previous command by pressing the up arrow key, a semicolon is added to the end of the line. Does anyone know why this happens, or how to disable it?

+1 for the semicolon ; being appended when using the up arrow key.

Thanks!

@jacob-fm @PhilipLutley Zsh Autocomplete does that so that you can press Ctrl-Space to insert multiple history lines. It goes away automatically when you type something.

@marlonrichert is there an easy way to disable that?

Bravo

Cool guide! I've been using Zsh for a while, but these plugins are game changers. Definitely gonna try adding these to my setup this weekend! Thanks for sharing!