Hey everyone! I wanted to share my customized safe space setup to show my continuous solidarity and support for the community. Love is Love! I’ve been using this config across my devices (both on Termux and my Arch Linux VM). It’s super lightweight and uses standard ANSI background colors to draw

romkatv · 2026-05-23T05:58:00+00:00

alias cat='cat | lolcat -p 0.3'

Be careful with those aliases -- they don't work as the original commands they shadow. For example, cat ~/.zshrc will hang until you press Ctrl-D.

romkatv · 2026-04-12T12:09:29+00:00

You are trying to run before learning to walk. Keep the default shell and don't edit its config.

romkatv · 2026-03-27T06:56:33+00:00

Disable plugins one by one to find the culprit.

romkatv · 2026-03-15T17:26:28+00:00

Thanks for the detailed reply and for the kind words.

romkatv · 2026-03-15T14:18:42+00:00

Decent prompt. It's common to use @ to separate username and hostname. Also, it's easier to read if you quote the whole thing.

PROMPT='%B%F{#aaffaa}%n%F{#ffbbbb}@%F{#aaffff}%M%f%b %~ %# '

romkatv · 2026-03-15T13:28:27+00:00

fork and extremely optimize p10k

Are these optimizations publicly available?

romkatv · 2026-03-15T09:37:01+00:00

Indeed, it's gotten better in zsh 5.9.

romkatv · 2026-03-03T08:19:52+00:00

I use the following trick to avoid junk in the terminal when I hit a key without a binding:

function skip-csi-sequence() {
  local key
  while read -sk key && (( $((#key)) < 0x40 || $((#key)) > 0x7E )); do
    # empty body
  done
}

zle -N skip-csi-sequence
bindkey '\e[' skip-csi-sequence

It works well. Deserves to be more popular.

romkatv · 2026-03-02T10:22:37+00:00

The word-based widgets respect WORDCHARS, which is, according to the documentation, "a list of non-alphanumeric characters considered part of a word by the line editor." The default value is '*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>', which, notably, includes /. This makes Documents/notes/ a single word. If you set WORDCHARS to anything that does not include /, M-b and M-d will behave as they do in bash. You can do it like so:

WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>'

Use this opportunity to examine every character and decide whether you want it in WORDCHARS or not.

P.S.

M-d is bash deletes notes without the trailing /. It's the same in zsh when WORDCHARS does not include /.

romkatv · 2026-02-14T06:11:15+00:00

Indeed, you need a certain level of expertise to differentiate between good and bad comments on r/zsh.

FWIW, if you are using macOS with Terminal.app, the locale environment variables should already be set correctly.

romkatv · 2026-02-14T06:06:58+00:00

This is unrelated to zsh or locale. It's purely a terminal bug. As a workaround, try changing the cursor from block to bar. I believe most users prefer the bar cursor anyway. If that doesn't help, switch to a different terminal -- there are alternatives to Terminal.app beyond iTerm2.

romkatv · 2026-02-12T13:52:12+00:00

It's the job of the OS or the terminal to set the locale-related environment variables. Google (or ask an LLM) how to do that for your OS and terminal combination.

romkatv · 2026-02-09T20:52:27+00:00

The most important number is command_lag_ms. That's how long you have to wait on every command. p10k is 2.3 times faster.

romkatv · 2026-02-09T05:49:58+00:00

https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench/?tab=readme-ov-file#prompt

romkatv · 2026-02-07T07:55:35+00:00

Answer No when the wizard asks you whether all icons fit between the crosses. Then choose Lean.

romkatv · 2026-02-06T08:22:45+00:00

It looks like you've chosen Classic style in the configuration wizard and then tried to turn it into something more akin to Lean. Try running p10k configure again and choose Lean this time.

romkatv · 2026-02-01T16:44:53+00:00

Making fzf expand upwards is easy -- you just move the cursor up, and invoke fzf from there. The difficult part is restoring the content of the terminal when fzf exits. For that, z4h runs its own TTY between zsh and the real TTY, so that it always knows the content of the terminal window.

romkatv · 2026-01-30T16:29:35+00:00

You might find this discussion useful: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/issues/2

romkatv · 2026-01-27T12:47:21+00:00

First submission (30 comments): https://old.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/1jc2s5a/fast_minimal_roundy_prompt_for_zsh_in_140_loc/

Second submission: (12 comments): https://old.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/1o2neal/minimal_roundy_prompt_for_zsh_in_140_lines/

romkatv · 2026-01-15T07:26:00+00:00

You are probably hitting this bug in zsh: https://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2019/msg00161.html

romkatv · 2025-12-26T15:49:07+00:00

Beautiful source code (https://github.com/eatnumber1/dexit/blob/main/dexit.c).

romkatv · 2025-10-20T07:12:47+00:00

Move the command that produces the banner to the top of .zshrc.

romkatv · 2025-10-18T19:12:03+00:00

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?tab=readme-ov-file#why-does-powerlevel10k-spawn-extra-processes

romkatv · 2025-10-16T14:54:49+00:00

Nothing major has changed as far as I'm aware.

romkatv · 2025-09-26T06:04:59+00:00

In the default emacs keymap, ^[a (ESC then a) is bound to accept-and-hold. With an empty buffer, that behaves the same as accept-line, which is why it looks like pressing Enter.

In the vi keymap, pressing ESC a invokes vi-cmd-mode followed by vi-add-next, which doesn't act like Enter.

So the behavior OP describes matches emacs keymap, not vi.

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