This Zsh config is perhaps my favorite one yet.

[@RyanHandby]

I can only imagine the amount of time it takes to make videos this smooth. I appreciate the effort these are great.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you very much!

[@offline__]

@@dreamsofautonomy what software do you use?

[@CoreIceX]

Wow face reveal

[@santiagoorozco3343]

the face does not match the voice IMO... but good face hahaha

[@1..1..1..1H]

He just did it casually

[@areeburrehmankhan1166]

He already has kinda done it on discord. Like his pfp is his face. Also in his really old videos he has done it.

[@Bliss467]

Handsome fella!

[@ZacMagee]

​@santiagoorozco3343 not what I was expecting at all 😂

[@fangg194]

Top quality video as always. The information, the voice, the style, the edit, everything is on point for me. Thank you so much for taking your time to craft these videos in such a way.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you!

[@JobStoit]

Man we need a Dreams of OS. Also nice camera work, you have a natural (or just learned very well) talent for video making and presenting

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you!

[@muslimgamerrr9479]

@@dreamsofautonomy do you use zioxide

[@SamEricEdge]

You made this? I made this! Stole 99% of your config to replace my mess of a .zshrc. I was using some of the plugins already, but pulled in from different install methods and what have you. Now my rc is readable! Plus I gained a bunch of new features. Much obliged!

[@jonny.rubber]

Great video. Your editing is amazing.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you so much!

[@vfmadd231pd]

This was superb! Now, I’m waiting for a tmux dedicated video 👀

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you! I actually have one on my other channel: Dreams of Code. I'll be refreshing it for this channel once it hits 1M views.

[@marcelliebreich5430]

@@dreamsofautonomy how do you get the Window Nummer as an Icon?

[@souviksaha5416]

​@@marcelliebreich5430Same question, it looks pretty dope ngl

[@okage_]

@@dreamsofautonomy been using that tmux config for a while so id love to see a refresh!

[@MichaelBauer-pe9ce]

I'm deeply impressed. Top-notch video, concise and detailed on the point. Awesome work!

[@夕阳-n1h]

very high quality content, even though most of this is familiar still appreciate the simplicity and taking time to explain everything. Content like this helps newcomers to linux.

[@CaioTechLabs]

His channel is incredible, the way he speaks helps a lot in understanding I am from Brazil and I understand very little English, his Setup is incredible. 😊

[@acebasein1205]

Beautifully crafted video! Just like your beautiful prompt👏

[@fire17102]

You literally nailed all the important ones! This is basically what i have but with added matrix rain (different colors for users) and lolcat-neofetch if its the first session since reboot.

[@w01dnick]

I've switched to fish from zsh, and haven't been disappointed. Almost everything is much simpler and feels nice.

[@Drezaem55]

I did the same a while back. But since I recently started sharing scripts with others I ran into the issue that some scripts have to be sourced (this allows the script to cd the users shell). Now I either have to write the scripts twice (in posix and fish), or have to find ways around the issue. I was already thinking of switching back to zsh, but I couldn't figure out how to decently do the history searching with the up arrow. And now with this tutorial that is fixed so I'm making the switch back.

[@tuananhdo1870]

@@Drezaem55just use chatgpt to make the translation

[@tuananhdo1870]

I use fish because inspired by devaslife channel

[@SkipperChuck42]

Looks like I stumbled upon this about 7 months or so after it was posted. Absolutely brilliant, and the setup is honestly light years better than using OMZ in startup time and, frankly, overall speed. One thing I noticed while trying it out is that fzf is not working as expected ... version that I have with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not take the "--zsh" flag, so that eval will not work. Other than that, spot on for everything else.

[@Megabeboo]

A tutorial on fzf-tab would indeed be lovely!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Agreed! Added to the backlog

[@brivism]

Yes!

[@JeffBigler]

Thanks for the suggestion of fzf-tab, I hadn't heard of it yet and it's awesome. I did notice that the order you are loading some of the plugins can cause issues, so you might want to double check those. For example, fzf-tab warns: `fzf-tab needs to be loaded after compinit, but before plugins which will wrap widgets, such as zsh-autosuggestions or fast-syntax-highlighting`

[@Zh4n6Wu]

This is exactly my problem. fzf-tab does not work for me. When I press TAB, nothing happens.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

So normally this would be an issue, but zinit should handle completion loading in the correct ordering!

[@codyw912]

@@dreamsofautonomy it didn't work for me out of the box, I had to load fzf-tab first with zinit. Probably best to just load them in order just in case.

[@Adam-wz8sh]

You're tutorials are so good. Keep the quality. It's hard to find good tutorial about linux.

[@a1mer06]

Absolute banger!!!!!!

[@toltarius]

This video was amazing and it really inspired me to really customize ZSH to my liking. I can see myself here getting super productive with all these plugins and tools. You rock.

[@yngshng]

top quality tutorial. the complicated part is getting all those different things working together. would have never figured out those zstyle and completion configs myself.

[@adibhanna]

Let's go! the face behind the voice!

[@lastink444]

i've been using OMZ for some time partially knowing what's hidden behind the fancy facade. I'ts so nice to finally see the manual config with some extra neat additions. Thanks!

[@bagfleet]

Absolutely fantastic video!

[@mikaa4366]

Thank you! Amazing timing, I've been planning to fix up my zshrc for some time. And I'm a bit disappointed that you forgot to mention that you use Arch, btw.

[@thomas-ux8co]

this video is smooth and crisp like Bacardi. subscribed

[@hydranooni]

FACE REVEAL, you look great man and of course, this video was as always good

[@latch909]

love that you actually have good taste and none of this is just for show

[@dennbauer]

Great video! I was with OMZ before but like this approach way more. Thanks for sharing!

[@dannierockz]

This is incredible! I didn't even know my shell was capable of all this neatness

[@js24345]

Thanks!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you so much for the support. I really appreciate it!

[@mtd3v]

Thanks for this! Sparked my new found interest in fzf.

[@recarsion]

This is so good and so close to what I was already using that instead of manually adding the extra things I didn't have I just went and copied the entire thing with minor changes, works great

[@aaaaliou]

Thanks for this video. I've been using the same bash configuration for the past 10 years and I've been thinking that it is time for a change.

[@Travis-ko2jo]

I've watched this video so many times, thank you so much! Very nice work.

[@SpaghettiRealm]

Great setup for zsh, great video as always 🙏

[@AZisk]

Nice video! Good to see a real human too.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thanks dude! Love your content as well

[@comosaycomosah]

Oiy! Good video bro look forward to seeing more content from ya

[@shafinplays]

Man i love you, the way you explain and break things for not so pro guys like me.. I hate when a guy blabbers about something like everyone is using linux like him since 10 years.. Tysmmmm

[@byte.raccoon]

awesome! it was too hard for me to adopt zsh with similar setup, this is the reason why I used fish: it's much simpler, but this completion with fzf is insane. I need to try zsh again. Thanks for inspiration!

[@jolness1]

Slick setup! Gonna steal some of it as I think they’d be handy

[@Evaldenis007]

amazing! please extend this video series and show more zsh (y) thank you for making awesome content!

[@erlgr]

Really nice config! I learned a lot in this video, I'll definitely check try this one out!

[@pooyanisalmani2844]

Your content is always amazing! thanks! I think i use every single terminal tool you ever recommended! My terminal looks exactly like yours LOL!

[@trimclain]

alias nvim='nvim' at 16:50 is the real gigachad move!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I'm glad you noticed! I was too lazy to rerecord it 😄

[@bernardorocha8881]

This video is amazing. Congrats for the work.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Cole-v2d]

Fantastic video! Much appreciated and all the thanks!

[@F1NEk]

tokyo night ❤

[@kevinnikolai8422]

The goat itself came again. Great video

[@WhatzHappeningNow9]

My god what an amazing video!

[@bibekjha5628]

Loved the hand movements ❤️❤️

[@MichaelScalet72]

I came here to tell him to please stop waving his hands so much! 😅

[@passioncorners]

Great flow & setup !

[@ohjakewhite]

Hope to see your fzf-tab config soon. I’ve just finished setting up zsh, omz, zoxide, fzf, fzf-tab, fd, eza, bat, tldr and preview based on context and actual proposed completion (commands, descriptions for flags, previewing content of variables). It was hella difficult cuz preview is actually a subshell so I had to pass additional context for aliases/variables with some dirty hacks). It took me like 10 days. So really hope to see yours!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I wanna see yours! It sounds pretty great if you ask me haha

[@Metruzanca]

FISH shell users: "Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power" Fish + starship + lsd + zoxide, all in pretty much stock configuration and you've got a very zen setup. Fish does most of the heavy lifting though honestly.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

No POSIX though 😔

[@NoctuaDeveloppement]

Really amazing video with new amazing tools! Really nice to put a face on a voice. 🤩

[@MuchBacon]

Great video. Helped me a lot to get started! Thanks.

[@b-za-codes]

Super wow, what a amazingly useful video

[@doop9713]

Elegant and functional config, excellent thank you

[@xiaoliu6973]

Thanks for posting this video. great content. Can you also post a video about your tmux config?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I have a video on it on my other channel "Dreams of Code"!

[@xiaoliu6973]

@@dreamsofautonomy Great great job.Good to know that is your channel. Amazing!

[@blackaura97]

fish: look what they do to imitate a fraction of my power

[@deudz]

imagine not being posix compliant

[@colton6130]

Wow been watching for a minute now on your other channel and was super surprised by the face reveal! I am also really enjoying this new channel hope it stays around!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I'm really enjoying this channel as well.

[@iamzareef]

Awesome setup! loved it

[@tubeDude48]

I just subscribed - This was excellent! Thanks.

[@navaneeth6157]

The Emacs keybinds is REALLY useful, thanks

[@YTit69]

Great! keep it up!!! Please do more about terminal features and productivity specially with git, ansible, JS libs and frameworks + html, if you using it!

[@derrekvanee4567]

*Derek over at DTOS is gonna come Fish'ing.* This is really dope though. I always used omz despite knowing about this because it seemed ganky but I guess just had to RTFM.

[@Sebastian-mp5ll]

I love the tmux config as well. Can we get a video on that too please? :)

[@lukeemhigh]

This video pushed me to analyze my zsh startup timings ( I use ohmyzsh ). After a little bit off fiddling I managed to add all the functionality you added to your config and reduce the startup time to 0.08s by lazy loading nvm and removing slow plugins (turns out that omz git plugin was the main culprit, as soon as i removed it I got a 10x improvement in startup times. I wasn't really using it since I prefer lazygit btw)

[@dreamsofautonomy]

That's some nice improvement to loading! I may have to check out the git plugin on my end as well

[@dan00b8]

You said you use alacritty, but i also see that there are no misalignments between the rounded characters in your nvim status bar [like where it says NORMAL), yours connects like a puzzle piece but mine have some jarring boundaries and their corners are not even aligned properly]. How did you manage to do that? I assume this is an alacritty issue since when i tried kitty or wezterm they are properly aligned there, same font, same shell, and default settings

[@ascourter]

Great video! I have been dragging my feet to switch to fish over ohmyzsh. I'm gonna use zinit now instead!

[@MohammadLsk]

That was awesome. I love your content, and it's great to finally see the face behind the voice. Could you make a video about window managers if you use any, or share your approach to handling windows

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Absolutely!

[@tobb10001]

Using Emacs binds in the terminal as a NeoVim user ist the 200 IQ move here. As much as I love NeoVim, Vim keybinds in the CLI are always kinda clumsy. I'll definitely give this a try!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

It seems counter intuitive on the surface of it but you're 100% correct on the clumsiness

[@007arek]

I have a similar setup but I use fasd in order to have access to opened files. Great that you promote plugin managers.

[@ernestodelgato930]

He does not look like what I thought he was gonna look like. Love the new format

[@caedis_]

Great video, was wanting to switch to zsh too

[@EthanLR]

5:43 regarding the font spacing, Nerd Fonts have fonts with Mono trailing the name, I've found that those don't have the spacing issue. Its likely that your chosen font has a corresponding *Mono font that fixes your issue

[@llll3816]

Love the fzf ls preview when using cd. Adding to my config now!

[@1337kaas]

Haven't refreshed my zsh conf for years. Powerlevel10k looks really nice. Might spend my weekend tweaking my config again 😅

[@macfrag574]

Great content, subscribed! Now if I can add a suggestion, what about your tmux setup? It looks quite neat!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you! I have an older video on my main channel about tmux, but I'll definitely refresh it for this channel probably when that one hits 1M views :)

[@MuntazirSaad]

High quality content ❤

[@mattiasilvestri3488]

I love these videos, make more and more and more and more. And more.....and more. But I'm desperately curious about that new tmux config...

[@eliasepg]

Awesome video, thank you!!

[@BunnyMolester]

next video, tmux configuration and better key bindings for fast approach

[@plokil]

What is the line with tabs in the bottom of your terminal? We need more videos about your configs mate, this one is awesome!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Tmux! I have a video on it on my main channel. If you search for "Tmux has forever changed the way I write code" it'll pop up! I'll probably do a new Tmux video at 1M

[@rafalg87]

A couple things to consider: HISTDUP=erase might trip you up occasionally when you want to recall a sequence of commands that you run previously. Since duplicate entries get removed, you might not be able to reproduce the exact steps. `setopt sharehistory` is nice but with it on you can't rely on the fact that Up arrow or Ctrl+P gives you the previously run command in that tab/pane. I kept running wrong commands and eventually disabled it 😀An alternative is copying the command you want to run, Ctrl+O is the keybinding in my setup (I think it's the default from either ZSH itself or OhMyZSH).

[@Tuna_sub]

What is your tmux theme? It looks really good.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Tokyo Night!

[@KartikKushwaha-df8ey]

Can yous share the tmux tab configuration. Looks good.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

You can find it at elliottminns/dotfiles on Github

[@cschwartz]

Great video! Have you thought about changing the order of your plugins based on individual plugin reference ordering and/or enabling turbo mode with zinit to eek a slight bit more speed?

[@acvKaZe]

Beautiful, Thank you!

[@DavidAlsh]

How do I use up/down arrow for cycling through history? Also how do I use the "home" and "end" keys to go to the start/end of my terminal line? I'm using the VSCode integrated terminal on Fedora Linux KDE

[@AhmadMughal1]

One question is by default the zsh-autosuggestions automatically shows the suggestions in the terminal without pressing tab. Is there some way that can be enabled in this it would be very helpful to know. Thank you.

[@fourcoding3198]

Unfortunately, when installing fzf via apt it currently installs a version (44) that doesn't support the --zsh-flag yet. Or am I missing something? Still, awesome config and video! Thank you very much!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

You are probably correct, the --zsh-flag is rather recent I believe! In that case you'll probably need to go straight to the source

[@mxcury-x86]

Hi man, great video as always! Definitely using this for my work setup, I was wondering with the fzf-tab complete with cd is there a way to set the height of the preview panel? I've looked everywhere and couldn't find anything

[@piyushsachdeva1656]

Amazing video, thanks for the taking out the time to help other. I saw your catppuccin-tmux repo, however, the exact tmux status-line in this video is different from the one in repo. The one here has nice 1's and 2's and just looks so great. It also has something that looks like a reload button for one of the windows. Can i get the config for this version? Thanks!

[@AmxCsifier]

she sells zsh on the sea shore she sells zsh on the sea shore she sells zsh on the sea shore she sells zsh on the sea shore she sells zsh on the sea shore

[@EskoLuontola]

How expand this to do substring completion? I wish that "cd projects/bar" would find "projects/foo-bar". Currently only "cd projects/bar" works. I've tried adding e.g. 'r:|=*' 'l:|=* r:|=*' to "zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list", but it hasn't helped.

[@jolynele2587]

thats awesome, now i gotta adapt this to my pwsh too (somehow...)

[@no_name4796]

3:04 btw i am pretty sure git clone creates all thr directory needed, thus the mkdir command is not really necessary

[@whateverkatana]

So after spending too much time trying to follow this and achieve zen, it turns out that - alacritty switched from .yaml to .toml config files only with version 0.13, which at least on my distro (pop!OS) isn't the one installed by any package manager. Had to download cargo to get it - alacritty's devs are... particular? I love their outright refusal to make the config more accessible -- "the default config is an empty file" -- by providing an annotated example config - the `zinit light zsh-user/zsh-completions` line (or any other `zinit light ...` means that I get prompted for my github user/password every time I start a new terminal session. And I seem to be the only person on the internet with this problem, since I can't find anything helpful about it - p10k never asks me for my color preferences :(

[@whateverkatana]

🤦`zsh-userS`, not `zsh-user`🤦‍♂. My other points stand.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I have a discord which I can help you on any of the above if you need it btw!

[@jay_barra]

One note is that fzf-tab needs to be loaded after the compinit step or the completions don't work on new shells. Shame that it makes the file a bit less structured

[@AlameenAdeyemi]

I added it and it still isnt working for me

[@devotoare7439]

On my system (Pop 22.04) having eval "$(fzf --zsh)" at the end (or anywhere) completely broke tab completions for me. The fzf repo suggests source