zpm - simple and fast zsh plugins manager

zpm is a plugin manager for zsh designed to be fast and easy to configure.

This tool was designed after seeing other plugin managers as slow or/and inconvenient. Primary design goals when developing this tool were:

• Make it fast;
• Allow to configure it with some conventional format;
• Keep .zshrc clean;
• Be able to work with Oh My Zsh plugins;
• Work with updates;
• Make it easily extensible.

This project is largely influenced by Antigen and Antibody.

Contents

• Installation
  • On macOS
  • On Linux
  • From source
• Getting Started
  • Your .zshrc
  • Configuring plugins
  • Installing and updating plugins
• Configuration
• Available commands
• Contributing

Installation

On macOS

On macOS you can use Homebrew: brew install eugene-babichenko/tap/zpm

On Linux

Go to the Releases section and download a binary or a package (.deb or .rpm).

Packages can be installed with:

• dpkg -i package-file.deb
• rpm -i package-gile.rpm

From source (any platform)

You will need go 1.12 or higher to build this project, so please install it and configure Go environment variables. You can follow the official guide.

• Download this repository: git clone https://github.com/eugene-babichenko/zpm.git
• Go to the repository directory: cd zpm
• Checkout the latest stable version: git checkout v0.3.0
• Run make install. This is required to set the correct version inside the app.

Getting Started

Your .zshrc

Just add this line after you add the directory containing your zpm installation ($GOPATH/bin) into the PATH variable and after you load any completions into the shell.

# Load plugins into the shell
source <(zpm load)

Configuring plugins

The configuration is located in ~/.zpm.yaml and will be created automatically on the first run. You can change the location of your configuration file using the --config argument.

The default configuration file will be generated on the first run of any zpm command.

Here is an example configuration:

plugins:
  - github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
  - github.com/mafredri/zsh-async
  - github.com/sindresorhus/pure
  - oh-my-zsh/plugin/colored-man-pages

You can specify a plugin version if required. Branch names, tags and commit hashes are acceptable. This is available for plugins installed from GitHub and for "oh-my-zsh" plugin line (not for "oh-my-zsh/plugin/*" and "oh-my-zsh/theme/*"!):

plugins:
  - github.com/marzocchi/zsh-notify@v1.0
  - oh-my-zsh@ea3e666e04bfae31b37ef42dfe54801484341e46

Possible patterns for adding the plugins are:

• github.com/username/repo for adding plugins from GitHub repositories;
• dir://path/to/plugin for adding local plugins. Note that the path must be relative to the zsh plugins directory (see Configuration).
• oh-my-zsh to load Oh My Zsh from GitHub (it is treated specially);
  • oh-my-zsh/plugin/* to load one of the plugins bundled with Oh My Zsh;
  • oh-my-zsh/themes/* to load one of the themes bundled with Oh My Zsh;

Installing and updating plugins

After a plugin has been added to the configuration file, you should run zpm update to download it. This command will also update other plugins. You can run zpm check to check for updates without installing them.

Configuration

This section contains the list of available configuration keys.

• plugins ([string]) - the list of plugin specifications. The format for specifications is described in Configuring plugins.
• logging_level (string) - logging level. Valid values are debug, info, error and fatal. The default value is info.
• on_load.check_for_updates (bool) - whether to check for updates a new shell loads. This is done in the background and does not hit the performance. The default value is true.
• on_load.update_check_period (string) defines the minimal period between the updates checks that are run when a new shell loads (valid when on_load.check_for_updates is set to true).Valid examples are 3h, 30m, 5h30m20s. The default value 24h.
• on_load.install_missing_plugins (bool) - whether to install plugins, that are specified in the config byt are not installed, when a new shell loads. The default value is true.

Available commands

Run zpm help to get the full list of available commands and their flags.

Contributing

I appreciate any help! You can submit your questions, proposals and bugs found to the GitHub Issues.