Feature request: it would be nice to have a Znap command to ask if a plugin is cloned

[mattmc3]

Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong and don't know the "znap way" of doing this, but currently I have code like this in my .zshrc:

if [[ ! -d $(znap path)/zsh-autosuggestions ]]; then
    znap clone zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
fi
znap source zsh-autosuggestions

It seems like that pattern might be better served with a convenience command within znap. One idea I had was adding an 'exists' subcommand.

if ! znap exists zsh-autosuggestions; then
    znap clone zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
fi
znap source zsh-autosuggestions

Another option would be to revamp the znap ls command to not actually ls, but return a list that can be properly stored in a list.

plugins=$(\ls $(znap path))
# or, if ls returned a simple list...
# plugins=$(znap ls)
if ! (($plugins[(Ie)zsh-autosuggestions])); then
    znap clone zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
fi
znap source zsh-autosuggestions

And, finally, perhaps an all-in-one-command would be another possibility:

# bundle does a clone if it has to, and sources the plugin
znap bundle zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Is there a canonical znap way to accomplish what I'm doing, or is there a feature we can get added to znap to achieve this better?

[marlonrichert]

The canonical "Znap way" of doing this is to znap clone everything once on the command line only. 🙂

Why would you need to check in your .zshrc file whether you have installed a plugin?

[mattmc3]

I frequently log into new machines (Raspberry Pis, servers, virtual machines, etc.) and grab my dotfiles via git to setup my ZSH set up the way I prefer. I like having that all happen in one step. I also frequently switch branches in my ZSH config to experiment with new tools, and when I switch back to my main branch I prefer ZSH to self-heal by setting itself back up automatically without extra steps. Nearly every other ZSH plugin manager I've tried in the past (antibody, antigen, zgen, zplug, zinit) has this ability.

[marlonrichert]

All right, it's there now. If you now do znap source zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions instead of znap source zsh-autosuggestions, it will automatically call znap clone with the same arguments, if there is no zsh-autosuggestions repo yet. This works for znap prompt, too. And you can even pass entire URLs to them, if you want, since those are accepted by znap clone, too.

[novirium]

Hi, just came across this while giving Znap a go: This feature appears to have been broken in a recent commit - the call to .znap.clone is no longer receiving any arguments, I think $1 is being cleared by the anonymous function added here and here?

[marlonrichert]

Whoops! Thanks for reporting. Should be fixed now.