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Installation
DANGER
These docs are for the not-yet-released v6.
For v5 docs see https://zsh-abbr.olets.dev
Package
Homebrew
zsh-abbr is available on Homebrew. Run
shell
brew install olets/tap/zsh-abbr
and follow the post-install instructions logged to the terminal.
Linux package repositories
Community members have created packages in some Linux distros' package repositories. These include
There may be others out there. If you know of another, please make a pull request to this page!
Plugin
You can install zsh-abbr with a zsh plugin manager. Each has their own way of doing things. Read your package manager's documentation or the zsh plugin manager plugin installation procedures gist; Fig users can install zsh-abbr from its page in the Fig plugin directory
After adding the plugin to the manager, it will be available in all new terminals. To use it in an already-open terminal, restart zsh in that terminal:
shell
exec zsh
Manual
- Either download the latest release's archive from https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr/releases and expand it (ensures you have the latest official release)
- or clone a single branch:shellReplace
git clone https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr --single-branch --branch <branch> --depth 1
<branch>
with a branch name. Good options aremain
(for the latest stable release),next
(for the latest release, even if it isn't stable).
Then add source path/to/zsh-abbr.zsh
to your .zshrc
(replace path/to/
with the real path), and restart zsh:
shell
exec zsh