⚙️ Startify
A plugin that aims at providing what vim-startify plugin does, but in Zsh. The analogy isn't fully easy to make. vim-startify
states - it provides dynamically created headers or footers and uses configurable lists to show recently used or bookmarked files and persistent sessions.
Zsh Startify overview
- Shows recently used files if used by a shell-util command, with name of the command(s) on other right
- Shows recently used vim files
- Show active tmux sessions
- Show statistics of most popular aliases in use
- Show recently visited projects e.g:
git
repositories, and directories with:Makefile
,CMakeLists.txt
,configure
script.
- Very advanced feature, inherited from
zsh-startify
's predecessor:z-shell/zaccumulator
plugin - Show recently ran
git
commands, with analysis of e.g. recently checked-out branches - Can cooperate with any bookmarking plugins to show their bookmarks
Quick Start
zsh-startify
accumulates data in its own history file. To pre-fill it quickly with a few of entries (basing on the regular history) you can run the __from-zhistory-accumulate
command.
Zstyles for Startify
The zstyles used to configure the plugin (add such commands anywhere in the zshrc
):
zstyle ":plugin:zsh-startify:shellutils" size 5 # The size of the recently used file list (default: 5)zstyle ":plugin:zsh-startify:vim" size 5 # The size of the recently opened in Vim list (default: 5)
Startify installation with ZI
Option A – normal load without turbo mode.
zi ice atload'zsh-startify'zi load z-shell/zsh-startify
Option B – a load with turbo mode.
zi ice wait'0' lucid atload'zsh-startify'zi load z-shell/zsh-startify
The first option (A) loads the plugin synchronously, at the time of execution of the zi load ...
command. The second option (B) loads in an asynchronous manner, 0 seconds after the prompt being first displayed.
Other Startify installations
Issue the regular loading command of your plugin manager, pointing it to z-shell/zsh-startify
. Then, add invocation of zsh-startify
to the end of ~/.zshrc
: