From: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Official plugin manager?
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:47:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2uk8okr.fsf@vuxu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200103204856.bv6f3dkqhtrjm6vm@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (Daniel Shahaf's message of "Fri, 3 Jan 2020 20:48:56 +0000")
Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> writes:
> Peter Stephenson wrote on Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 15:00:09 +0000:
>> On Thu, 2020-01-02 at 21:26 -0600, dana wrote:
>> > On 2 Jan 2020, at 20:45, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > It has been our long-standing practice to recommend that package
>> > > builders/installers do NOT create /etc/z* files, or make them minimal,
>> > > so as not to interfere with users own initialization files. Maybe
>> > > it's time to relax that, or at least to provide a suggested skeleton
>> > > .zshrc -- which we could connect to zsh-newuser-install to be slurped
>> > > in without having to go through all the questions if you just want to
>> > > "feel lucky".
>> > The latter is what i'm suggesting, yeah. Dumb down the wizard a bit, add a
>> > flashy option to the first screen that says 'do the cool things
>> > (recommended)'
>> > or whatever, and have it install a well-commented .zshrc with the settings
>> > that that a novice/casual user would look for.
>>
>> I tend to agree with the thrust of this --- feedback over the years has
>> been quite strongly people don't want to do anything clever; the difficulty
>> remaining is what sort of basic set up to copy in instead. But yes,
>> whatever that is it should probably be something prepared elsewhere and
>> copying in that should probably be the highlighted / default option.
>
> I agree: my take-away from the discussion is that there's room for a "sensible
> defaults" thingy (be it a zshrc template or a plugin). Shall we create
> a github/gitlab repo to work on that in?
What I once made for our local student users (ignore the last three
functions and the prompt if you want):
http://leahneukirchen.org/dotfiles/.zshrc.sensible
--
Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> https://leahneukirchen.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-06 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-02 3:17 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-02 4:28 ` Eric Cook
2020-01-02 11:03 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-02 11:37 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-02 11:55 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-02 21:30 ` dana
2020-01-03 0:25 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-03 1:36 ` dana
2020-01-03 2:43 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-03 2:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-01-03 3:26 ` dana
2020-01-03 5:13 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-03 15:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-01-03 20:48 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-03 21:51 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-03 22:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-03 22:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-01-03 22:37 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-04 0:42 ` dana
2020-01-04 1:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-04 15:46 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-04 16:27 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-04 16:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-04 17:35 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-01-04 17:42 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-04 17:11 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-01-05 10:40 ` Oliver Kiddle
2020-01-06 17:47 ` Leah Neukirchen [this message]
2020-01-03 11:15 ` Oliver Kiddle
2020-01-04 5:16 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-04 6:00 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-02 12:00 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-01-02 12:21 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2020-01-02 12:27 ` Roman Perepelitsa
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