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

Oh my zsh.

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

@johndfowler
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The goat post. Thank you.

@A-Moussa0
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This is slick.. thank you!

@technofreak
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Love this, super helpful ❤️

@a-z-hub
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a-z-hub commented May 8, 2024

WOW, its awesome 👍

@Netlighter
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it's perfect man! thanks alot, i just need to reinstall whole system and want to return my old setup fast. with this gist i can do it in seconds!

@vimkim
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vimkim commented Jun 13, 2024

This is a time saver so useful

@basit26374
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It's a time saver. Thanks

btw, I got error during clone repo.

➜ ~ git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting
Cloning into '/home/abdul-basit/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 3365, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (97/97), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (64/64), done.
error: RPC failed; curl 56 GnuTLS recv error (-9): Error decoding the received TLS packet.
error: 7746 bytes of body are still expected
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

@ahmedhosnypro
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ahmedhosnypro commented Jun 13, 2024

for perfiction
faster to configure above plugins, assuming fresh install

sed -i 's/plugins=(git)/plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting fast-syntax-highlighting zsh-autocomplete)/g' ~/.zshrc

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