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I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto https://github.com/sorin

by shiven 11y ago

I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

emsy 11y ago
It's weird, when I started using oh-my-zsh, everyone complained about its performance but it worked swiftly for me. Now after a year I can see the problem, even though I didn't change anything in the config. It's still acceptable on my desktop, but annoying to use on the server.
- pragone 11y ago
  Been using oh-my-zsh for years, haven't had a single problem with it. Not sure what's going on where people are having so many problems with it being slow.
  - themartorana 11y ago
    Same. I keep fearing something will creep up, considering how much I've heard, but it still works brilliantly, from my new iMac all the way down to my shared host on Webfaction.
- simcop2387 11y ago
  What I've mostly noticed with it being slow is anything that might accidentally trigger it trying to ssh to another machine to get an autocomplete list. Since it won't maintain that connection it can cause it to happen multiple times while you're trying to tab complete different pieces. I imagine other similar problems with slow file systems or ones with a lot of latency (nfs?) might cause problems. I haven't noticed it elsewhere so maybe there's something I'm just not hitting.
simi_ 11y ago
Just switched to prezto yesterday, I doubt I'll be looking back.
CJefferson 11y ago
I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used. oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).
- dmix 11y ago
  Thanks for the heads up, looks like I'll pass on prezto...
- jzelinskie 11y ago
  I write scripts in bash, because most people probably aren't using zsh or have zsh installed. Also, when you feel like losing the magic, you can escape commands by prefixing them with backslash (i.e. \cat vs cat).
- dguaraglia 11y ago
  Oh god, I still swear at the whole "\rm" thing. I guess it's been a benefit a couple times where I might have deleted something by accident, but considering I mostly work on Git repositories, the inconvenience added by the wrappers is totally not worth it.
- jeffcox 11y ago
  It's so bizarre to me that people would look at the base install of essentially dotfiles as canonical and unalterable. Fork Prezto and maintain your own version.
  - MetaCosm 11y ago
    Generally the reason to go with such a kit is so you DO NOT have to do the maintenance... you gain the benefits of the community with little to no effort.
  - CJefferson 11y ago
    If we were talking about a single file of up to 100 lines or so, I would agree. But presto is huge! I don't want to read the whole thing and decide what bits I do and don't want.
wldcordeiro 11y ago
Prezto and Antigen are the better solutions for ZSH users. Oh-my-zsh has some issues that Antigen addresses and Prezto does things in a different way entirely that's equally good.

by shiven 11y ago

I found prezto is more stable and responsive. Had weird hangs on auto-completion with omzsh... https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

emsy 11y ago

It's weird, when I started using oh-my-zsh, everyone complained about its performance but it worked swiftly for me. Now after a year I can see the problem, even though I didn't change anything in the config. It's still acceptable on my desktop, but annoying to use on the server.

pragone 11y ago
Been using oh-my-zsh for years, haven't had a single problem with it. Not sure what's going on where people are having so many problems with it being slow.
- themartorana 11y ago
  Same. I keep fearing something will creep up, considering how much I've heard, but it still works brilliantly, from my new iMac all the way down to my shared host on Webfaction.
simcop2387 11y ago
What I've mostly noticed with it being slow is anything that might accidentally trigger it trying to ssh to another machine to get an autocomplete list. Since it won't maintain that connection it can cause it to happen multiple times while you're trying to tab complete different pieces. I imagine other similar problems with slow file systems or ones with a lot of latency (nfs?) might cause problems. I haven't noticed it elsewhere so maybe there's something I'm just not hitting.

simi_ 11y ago

Just switched to prezto yesterday, I doubt I'll be looking back.

CJefferson 11y ago

I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used. oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).

dmix 11y ago
Thanks for the heads up, looks like I'll pass on prezto...
jzelinskie 11y ago
I write scripts in bash, because most people probably aren't using zsh or have zsh installed. Also, when you feel like losing the magic, you can escape commands by prefixing them with backslash (i.e. \cat vs cat).
dguaraglia 11y ago
Oh god, I still swear at the whole "\rm" thing. I guess it's been a benefit a couple times where I might have deleted something by accident, but considering I mostly work on Git repositories, the inconvenience added by the wrappers is totally not worth it.
jeffcox 11y ago
It's so bizarre to me that people would look at the base install of essentially dotfiles as canonical and unalterable. Fork Prezto and maintain your own version.
- MetaCosm 11y ago
  Generally the reason to go with such a kit is so you DO NOT have to do the maintenance... you gain the benefits of the community with little to no effort.
- CJefferson 11y ago
  If we were talking about a single file of up to 100 lines or so, I would agree. But presto is huge! I don't want to read the whole thing and decide what bits I do and don't want.

wldcordeiro 11y ago

Prezto and Antigen are the better solutions for ZSH users. Oh-my-zsh has some issues that Antigen addresses and Prezto does things in a different way entirely that's equally good.