zsh, antidote and plugins

zsh with antidote: the shell, its plugins, aliases and helper functions.

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zsh is the login shell. antidote loads its plugins from a plain list and compiles them into one file, so the shell starts fast. The plugins add the things you feel on every keystroke: suggestions, highlighting and fuzzy completion.

On the workstation

antidote, starship, fzf and the plugins come from the Brewfile; .zshrc and ~/.config/zsh/*.zsh come from the config repo’s chezmoi source.
Plugins, in load order: Oh My Zsh’s git, docker-compose, kubectl, gradle, sudo, extract, colored-man-pages, copypath and copybuffer; fzf-tab; zsh-you-should-use; zsh-autopair; zsh-autosuggestions; fast-syntax-highlighting.
The ZoolCoder theme colours fzf, eza, bat and the highlighting, and follows light and dark mode.

Keys and commands

Key or command Does

Key or command	Does
Tab	Completion as a fuzzy menu with previews (fzf-tab)
Esc Esc	Put `sudo` in front of the last command
Ctrl+O	Copy the typed command line
`update`	Pull zc-workstation and the config, rebuild, apply, upgrade packages and runtimes, then run the doctor
`wtf`	Claude explains why the last command failed and puts a fixed command on the prompt; `wtf ci` explains the branch’s last failed Actions run
`aic`	Claude writes a conventional commit message for the staged changes; you edit it before it commits
`aipr`	Claude writes the pull request title and body from the branch; you edit it, then it pushes and opens the PR
`gt [query]`	Pick one Gradle test class with fzf and run only it
`mkcd`, `killport`, `serve`, `ports`	Make and enter a folder, free a port, serve this folder over HTTP, list listening ports

Tab

Completion as a fuzzy menu with previews (fzf-tab)

Esc Esc

Put sudo in front of the last command

Ctrl+O

Copy the typed command line

update

Pull zc-workstation and the config, rebuild, apply, upgrade packages and runtimes, then run the doctor

wtf

Claude explains why the last command failed and puts a fixed command on the prompt; wtf ci explains the branch’s last failed Actions run

aic

Claude writes a conventional commit message for the staged changes; you edit it before it commits

aipr

Claude writes the pull request title and body from the branch; you edit it, then it pushes and opens the PR

gt [query]

Pick one Gradle test class with fzf and run only it

mkcd, killport, serve, ports

Make and enter a folder, free a port, serve this folder over HTTP, list listening ports

zsh, antidote and plugins

On the workstation

Keys and commands

See also

Keyboard shortcuts