My current $ZDOTDIR zsh config directory.
This more-or-less follows the XDG base directory spec:
- Config (this repo) goes
~/.config/zsh/instead of directly in $HOME - Cache files go in
~/.cache/zsh/ - Local data files (like dynamically downloaded plugins, for example) go in
~/.local/share
This directory should be checked out into (or symlinked to) .config/zsh, and .zshenv within this
directory should be symlinked to ~/.zshenv.
Alternately, you can create a separate ~/.zshenv that sources in .config/zsh/.zshenv. The
.zshenv file in this directory sets ZDOTDIR to ~/.config/zsh, so the rest of the zsh config
files will be read from here.
This uses plugins sparingly. I'm more likely to copy bits that I want into my config than bring in whole repos, and I'm not comfortable downloading plugins at runtime. Sadly, we're in the age of supply chain attacks.
I used Prezto for many, many years – from back when it was a fork of Oh-My-Zsh. And it works well, and there's no real need to change.
But recently I decided I wanted to set up my own anyway. Why? Maybe because I had a lot of other things that I really needed to do, so clearly refreshing my zsh config was what I did. Maybe peer pressure got to me. Maybe I wanted to go through the exercise of putting it together so that I understood it a little better. Maybe because I ran across zsh unplugged and it clicked with me.
But Prezto is intelligently put together, and the author understands Zsh better than I ever will,
so this steals borrows liberally from it. I also followed the breadcrumbs from
zsh unplugged and cribbed a lot from mattmc3's
dotfiles as well.
Just dropping this here for reference, because I tend to forget:
For login shells, files are loaded in this order:
.zshenv → .zprofile → .zshrc → .zlogin → .zlogout
For non-login, interactive shells, it is normally:
.zshenv → .zshrc → .zlogout
However, my .zshenv sources .zprofile directly for interactive shells.
Nothing here is original.