zsh

Autoload compinit, a module that provides completions for zsh.

autoload -Uz compinit

Speed up compinit by using zcompdump, a completion caching solution.

compinit -d ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/zsh/zcompdump

setopt append_history
setopt extended_history
setopt hist_ignore_space
setopt hist_ignore_all_dups
setopt hist_reduce_blanks
setopt hist_no_store
setopt complete_aliases
setopt share_history
setopt ignore_eof
setopt list_packed
setopt auto_remove_slash
setopt no_complete_aliases

See the manual for more information on the above options.

zstyle is a built-in mini configuration module for zsh, it concerns itself with how things a lookup is performed relative to an input string.

For example, for any given string (expressed by the pattern :completion:*), the following form instructs the shell to present completions as a navigable menu from which items are selected.

zstyle ':completion:*' menu select

While this form tells the shell to cache any completions to reduce the computational cost of looking them up each time.

zstyle ':completion:*' use-cache on

This next one instructs files to be sorted by the last time they were accessed, it is super handy but has the downside of being potentially cumbersome in situations where a directory has more than a few dozen entries, in which case alphabetical order (the default) is the most helpful ordering mechanism.

zstyle ':completion:*' file-sort access

Sorting files reduces the cognitive effort associated with parsing unordered data, grouping things by their nature – listing directories first, files second – will help further reduce that mental strain.

zstyle ':completion:*' list-dirs-first true

Use the LS_COLORS environment variable to dictate the color specification of completion candidates.

zstyle ':completion:*:default' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}

Configure the order of appearance of directories when auto-completing; display local directories before those in CDPATH.

zstyle ':completion:*:complete:(cd|pushd):*' \
       tag-order 'local-directories named-directories'

For more information on these settings, see zshcompsys(1).

PROMPT="%(4~|.../%2~|%~) $ "

Configure the cdpath built-in variable, an array-based representation of the shell-agnostic CDPATH environment variable that helps jump to (the listed, semicolon-separated) directories regardless of whether or not they exist in the current directory.

Every shell recognizes the PATH environment variable and looks for executables by traversing each directory until it finds the first matchl; CDPATH is the equivalent of PATH but for directories.

cdpath=($HOME
        $HOME/sites
        $HOME/programs
        $HOME/documents)

I prefer to have commands that perform changes to the filesystem to be verbose and to always prompt me for my confirmation (a protective measure).

Bypassing the prompts can be done using the yes command, e.g. yes |<cp,rm,mv> [OPTIONS].

alias cp='cp -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv'
alias rm='rm -iv'

Listing directories should be colorful, their keybindings should be intuitive.

alias ls='ls --color=always --group-directories-first'
alias la='ls -la'
alias ll='ls -l'

cd is aliased to cdls to automate discovery, making movement between directories a bit more intuitive.

alias cd='cdls'
alias ..='cd ..'

Browse the list of installed packages and their metadata:

alias pkgls='pacman -Qq | fzf --preview-window sharp --preview "pacman -Qi {1}"'

Browse the list of packages available for download (and install the selection):

alias pkgin='pacman -Slq | fzf --multi --preview "pacman -Si {1}" | xargs -ro doas pacman -S'

And everything else…

alias sudo='doas'
alias open='xdg-open'
alias ctl='systemctl'
alias uctl='systemctl --user'
alias vim='vim --clean'
alias mbsync="mbsync --config ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/mbsync/mbsyncrc"
alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11'
alias bell='tput bel'

Define a function that lists the contents of directories upon entering them, it is aliased to cd section 1.4.

cdls() {
   builtin cd "$@" && ls
}

Define a function that brings programs to the foreground the same way they were placed in the background, originally authored by Adam Stankiewicz in an article titled "How to boost your Vim productivity".

fancy-ctrl-z() {
    if [[ $#BUFFER -eq 0 ]]; then
        BUFFER="fg"
        zle accept-line -w
    else
        zle push-input -w
        zle clear-screen -w
    fi
}

# Load the function
zle -N fancy-ctrl-z

# Bind it to Ctrl-Z
bindkey '^Z' fancy-ctrl-z

If a command's execution time exceeds $COMMAND_DURATION seconds, ring the bell after it has finished (no matter the exit code).

COMMAND_DURATION=30

function precmd_bell {
        if [[ ${TTYIDLE} -gt $COMMAND_DURATION ]] ; then
                tput bel
        fi
}

precmd_functions+=(precmd_bell)