wbase

A stripped down version of Grml's zsh config.

Why?

• Faster startup. wbase.zsh avoids the many Zsh version checks of Grml's config (requires Zsh 5.4 or newer)
• Better integration with plugin managers like zplug
• No prompt, because there are better alternatives. You can set your own prompt for example with git-prompt.zsh or powerlevel10k

Installation

zplug

zplug "woefe/wbase.zsh"

Manual

Clone this repo or download the wbase.zsh file. Then source it in your .zshrc. For example:

mkdir -p ~/.zsh
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/woefe/wbase.zsh ~/.zsh/wbase.zsh
echo "source ~/.zsh/wbase.zsh/wbase.zsh" >> .zshrc

Features

• less colors
• ls colors (requires alias ls=ls --color=auto)
• text width of man limited to 120 characters
• Menu completion with sections
• Large history (100000 items)
• Autopushd and persistent dirstack
• Easier dirstack handling. (Type cd -<TAB> or cd +<TAB> to go to recently visited directories)
• Terminal title for xterm based terminals
• Useful keybindings:
  • Alt+q: push-line; save current command line, and re-display in next prompt.
  • Alt+h: run-help; show man page of current command
  • Alt+1 to Alt+5: get first to fifth parameter of previous command
• Useful functions:
  • mkcd: make directory and cd into it
  • cdt: make a temporary directory and cd into it
  • cl: change directory and list files
  • mkqrcode: create QR-Code from stdin or arguments (depends on qrencode)