antibody

Fast Zsh plugin manager

TLDR

Bundle plugins

$ antibody bundle < [plugins.txt]

Bundle a single plugin

$ antibody bundle [zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions]

Update all plugins

$ antibody update

List installed plugins

$ antibody list

Initialize in zshrc

$ source <(antibody init)

antibody is a fast shell plugin manager written in Go. It downloads and loads Zsh plugins from GitHub or other sources, similar to Antigen but with faster performance.Plugins are specified in a text file with one repository per line. Antibody bundles them into shell code that can be sourced in your .zshrc.

antibody is deprecated. No new features or bugfixes are being added. The maintainer recommends antidote as a drop-in replacement.

PARAMETERS

bundle [plugin]

Download and print source commands for plugins

update

Update all installed plugins

list

List installed plugins

init

Output initialization code

purge plugin

Remove a plugin

home

Print antibody home directory

USAGE

Typical setup in .zshrc:

$ source <(antibody init)
antibody bundle < ~/.zsh_plugins.txt

Or for faster startup:

$ antibody bundle < ~/.zsh_plugins.txt > ~/.zsh_plugins.sh
source ~/.zsh_plugins.sh

INSTALL

yay -S antibody

CAVEATS

Plugin updates require running antibody update; they don't auto-update. Static loading (generated file) is faster but requires regeneration after changes.

HISTORY

antibody was created by Carlos Alexandro Becker as a faster alternative to Antigen, the popular Zsh plugin manager, using Go for improved performance. The project has since been deprecated and superseded by antidote, a Zsh reimplementation by mattmc3.

RESOURCES

Source code · Homepage