Re: Best practices for managing aliases in ohmyzsh?

[Michael Klemm <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

On 30.08.2021 20:13, Steve Dondley wrote:
> I switched to zsh last week and learning the ropes. My .zshrc is quickly 
> growing out of hand.

I basically went all-in on the Oh My Zsh approach and created my own 
theme and my own set of plugins.  I basically have this:

orcus ~ [0:0]> \ls -d .oh-my-zsh.custom/*
.oh-my-zsh.custom/oh-my-zsh.custom.sh
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins
.oh-my-zsh.custom/themes
.oh-my-zsh.custom/tools

I have my own theme "mklemm" that defines the prompt style and the 
general behavior of my Zsh instances.

The plugins folder then has a few plugins that I wrote to easily absorb 
different machines (or where I create a "fork" of the original Zsh 
plugin for myself):

orcus ~ [0:0]> \ls -d .oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/*
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/anaconda
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/autosuggestions
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/conda-zsh-completion
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/direnv
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/extract
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/fastfile
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/fritzbox
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/history-search-multi-word
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/k
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/mklemm
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/slurm
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/zsh-completions
.oh-my-zsh.custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

In my .zshrc, I then have this:

if [[ -e "${HOME}/.myzshrc.local.zsh" ]]; then
    source "${HOME}/.myzshrc.local.zsh"
fi
export ZSH_CUSTOM="${HOME}/.oh-my-zsh.custom"
export ZSH_THEME="mklemm"

plugins=(
  autosuggestions
  colorize
  [...]
  $local_plugins
)

source $HOME/.oh-my-zsh.custom/oh-my-zsh.custom.sh
source $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/oh-my-zsh.sh

The way this works is that if there's a "${HOME}/.myzshrc.local.zsh" it 
is sourced and does some machine-specific adjustments that are not 
contained in the general .zshrc file.  That local script can also set 
local_plugins to a list with plugins that I only want/need on that 
machine (e.g., a plugin to work with the SLURM job scheduler on an HPC 
system).


> Now I'm wondering if there is some similar mechanism for adding aliases 
> with ohmyzsh. If not, what's everyone else doing who has a couple 
> hundred aliases. Are you just throwing them all into .zshrc or doing 
> something to help manage all your aliases?

Most aliases with Oh My Zsh are coming from plugins, so my mklemm plugin 
has an alias.sh file that defines that aliases that I want on top of 
those imported from all the plugins.


Kind regards,
        -michael

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