Installing oh-my-zsh after running install.sh

[LarryBarker]

Hey @driesvints, I never installed oh-my-zsh when running a forked version of your dotfiles. Now I'm trying to customize my terminal a bit and am having issues. I went ahead and installed oh-my-zsh (/Users/larry/.oh-my-zsh does exist). I updated my .zshrc, reloaded my terminal, and am not seeing any changes. My fork is based on an older version of your dotfiles which used zplug (doesn't look like you're using it now).

I searched issues and didn't really find anything that helped much. Here is my .zshrc:

export DOTFILES=$HOME/.dotfiles
export ZPLUG_HOME=/usr/local/opt/zplug

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

source $ZPLUG_HOME/init.zsh

# Which plugins would you like to load?
# Standard plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(git)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
zplug 'zplug/zplug', hook-build:'zplug --self-manage'

# Plugins
zplug "~/.dotfiles", from:local

zplug "zsh-users/zsh-completions"
zplug "zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting", defer:2
zplug "zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search", defer:3

# Themes
export MNML_INSERT_CHAR="$"
export MNML_PROMPT=(mnml_status mnml_git mnml_keymap)
export MNML_RPROMPT=('mnml_cwd 20')

zplug subnixr/minimal, use:minimal.zsh, from:github, as:theme

zplug load

and a screen shot of my terminal:

Do you have any thoughts on what I can do to get oh-my-zsh working? When I initially installed it appeared to load oh-my-zsh but after quitting terminal it will not load again.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated, and thanks for sharing!

UPDATE
Another case of asking too soon.. I just simply copied your current .zshrc and all is well. One thing I am looking for is highlighting commands that are valid vs invalid. I don't remember how I did this before, whether or not it was part of your dotfiles when I forked.

For example, typing a valid command would turn the command green, while invalid commands would be red. This also worked for my aliases.

Do you remember implementing something similar?

Thanks again!

[KevinBatdorf]

One thing I am looking for is highlighting commands that are valid vs invalid.

@LArbearrr You have it in your .zshrc file but it's not installed properly (or maybe just reload?).

See here: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Edit: You can install it via your Brewfile

brew 'zsh-syntax-highlighting'

[driesvints]

Hey @LArbearrr. I unfortunately don't know too much about the Zplug thing anymore.. it's been a while since I removed it again.

I unfortunately don't know about the highlighting command thing, sorry...

I think @KevinBatdorf maybe has the solution for you. Going to close this one but definitely feel free to discuss further here 👍