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⚙️ 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: