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10 Zsh hacks I wish I knew about sooner

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Some of these would have saved me quite a lot of time...

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I've been using zsh now as my main shell environment for over 10 years. During that time I've picked up a few tricks and hacks to help improve my terminal based workflow, 10 of which I'm sharing in this video

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00:00:00 Intro
00:00:41 #0 - Edit Command Buffer
00:01:48 #1 - Undo
00:02:39 #3 - Magic Space
00:04:03 #3 - chpwd hook
00:06:03 Sponsor
00:07:38 #4 - Suffix Aliases
00:09:22 #5 - Global Aliases
00:11:04 #6 - zmv
00:13:08 #7 - Named Directories
00:14:04 #8 - Custom Widgets
00:15:19 #9 - Hotkey Insertions

20 Comments

@dreamsofcode Creator 9 months ago Pinned

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@cody_codes_youtube 9 months ago

I want to believe you actually code with your terminal font size that big.

@Redyf 9 months ago

I've been using zsh for years and still didn't know many of these hacks, THANK YOU!

@mechwarrior83 9 months ago (edited)

bro casually dropped the most useful zsh video, undo command alone is a game changer!

@its_cylis 9 months ago

Can't believe we got a new video before the end of the year, this is going to be a fun one

@Rndm-kun 9 months ago

I personally use fish since it's very useable out of the box. I mostly only need to define my aliases. But beware it's not posix compliant. When I need to run posix script I just open bash > run the script > exit to fish. There's a plugin to run the posix command directly on fish but I do it rarely enough that I found jump to bash is fine.

@RogerioRAlcantara 5 months ago

Looking forward to the ZLE video! Anxiously! 🤩

@squalazzo 9 months ago

very interested in more video on this, like zle and other advanced usage! happy new year!

@kazwalker764 9 months ago

I like the undo feature, I may have to add that to my ZSH setup. But your chpwd setup is a great way to give hackers an easily guessable RCE exploit on your system.

Using direnv is probably the best solution, but it has a few caveats and isn't fool proof.

If you had shell hooks like that on your company system and there were compliance (PCI, SOC, etc.) security reviews, they would get flagged.

@klaernie 9 months ago (edited)

Since you use vim - `set -o vi`. Now instead of spawning an editor, press escape and use your vim knowledge directly in the shell

@p10tube 9 months ago

please, make a video about `zle`

@RedCrafter07 9 months ago

Really interesting video, thank you for sharing! I personally use Fish, but many tricks are a really great inspiration. Happy new year!

@Jelster64 9 months ago

Great tips, I'm definitely gonna use global aliases for /dev/null now. I do wanna mention vimv, for bulk renaming files in neovim (without needing ranger). For vim enthusiasts I cannot imagine anything more elegant.