antidote
A Zsh plugin manager written in Zsh, continuing the legacy Antibody and Antigen plugin managers.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install antidote
About antidote
antidote manages plugins for the Zsh shell. It is a feature-complete Zsh implementation of the Antibody plugin manager, which was itself derived from Antigen, and aims to give users of those older managers a maintained path forward.
The project focuses on keeping plugin loading fast so shell startup stays quick. It is written in Zsh itself, ships man pages and a test suite, and is documented at antidote.sh.
Strengths
- Continuity for Antibody and Antigen users
- Pure Zsh implementation with no extra runtime
- Focus on fast shell startup
Limitations
- Only for Zsh
- Plugin configuration is left to the user
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- mattmc3
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Zsh users who want a fast plugin manager or are leaving Antibody
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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