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Zim: Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework
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How to install oh-my-zsh plugins or prezto modules #380

Closed rockyzhang24 closed 4 years ago

rockyzhang24 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Thank you first for this amazing plugin manager. I am new here. I am wondering how to install oh-my-zsh plugins and prezto modules. I just tried zmodule ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/extract, but it shows that it cannot find this repo.

Thank you.

ericbn commented 4 years ago

Hi @yanzhang0219. Although zimfw is not initially intended to be used with plugins inside subdirectories, as is the case with ohmyzsh and prezto, you can manually initialize them with the --source option in zmodule. Ohmyzsh plugins generally also require you to add the plugin directory to fpath, and you can do it with the --fpath option in zmodule. We believe plugins are better maintained as separate repos, so we don't encourage the ohmyzsh or prezto approaches.

This is how it looks like:

zmodule ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh -f 'plugins/wd' -s 'plugins/wd/wd.plugin.zsh'

You can add multiple -s/--source and -f/--fpath options for initializing multiple plugins.

And BTW we have our own archive module that can be used instead of the ohmyzsh's extract one.

rockyzhang24 commented 4 years ago

Hi @ericbn. Thank you very much for your help. And I will definitely try the archive module shipped with zimfw. Closing this.

tombh commented 2 years ago

Is this not included in the README in order to try to discourage its use?

ericbn commented 2 years ago

Hi @tombh. I would say yes, we don't want to encourage that. Plus, it's not really so easy to use zmodule this way...