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eendroroy / alien

An asynchronous zsh prompt
https://eendroroy.github.io/alien
MIT License
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Install document is demanded #8

Closed shengyang998 closed 6 years ago

shengyang998 commented 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for the very great work. However, I am new to zsh and its themes and plugins. Therefore, I don't quiet understand how to install and configure the alien theme with the content on the README file. Hoping someone can help and add a related link or write a short tutorial to install and configure it.

At first, I followed the README file to try to manually install the theme. Overriding and adding theme is succeed and it is also succeed running the git submodule update --init --recursive, but after that, when I change ZSH_THEME="alien" and do source ~/.zshrc, it just happened to fail to load the theme. Then I tried the antigen method. After installing antigen with brew install antigen, I run antigen theme eendroroy/alien alien as told, and it seems that it worked. However, it didn't work since I put antigen theme eendroroy/alien alien in ~/.zshrc. When I start a new terminal window, I just show Antigen: Another process in running.. After running antigen reset and start a new window again, the Antigen: Another process in running. didn't show up, neither the theme changed. Hoping more document provided, I may help after I know the way through.

eendroroy commented 6 years ago

The issue - Antigen: Another process in running. - seems like a bug of antigen itself. See the discussion here: https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen/issues/543

I no longer use antigen. My current plugin manager is zplug. Back when I used antigen, this was in my .zshrc

if [ -d ~/.antigen ]; then
  source ~/.antigen/antigen.zsh
fi

# THEMES
antigen theme eendroroy/alien alien

antigen apply

And this was the script I used for installing antigen https://github.com/eendroroy/dotfiles/blob/master/common/recipes/antigen.sh

shengyang998 commented 6 years ago

Thank you! It worked. I missed antigen apply at the end of the script. But using antigen seems too slow when I start a new terminal, maybe I'll try zplug later. Thanks a lot @eendroroy

eendroroy commented 6 years ago

You are welcome :)