zsh-fast-alias-tips

A Zsh plugin to help remembering those shell aliases you once defined.

Ported from djui/alias-tips. Written in Zsh and Go, so 10x faster!

⚠️ This is maintainable fork of sei40kr/zsh-fast-alias-tips. ⚠️

🖥️ Example

$ alias gst='git status'

$ git status
💡  gst
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

📦 Installation

zinit

From GitHub Releases (RECOMMENDED):

zinit ice from'gh-r' as'program'
zinit light decayofmind/zsh-fast-alias-tips

Compile from sources (assume you have proper version of Golang installed. NOT recommended):

zinit ice atclone"make build" atpull"%atclone"
zinit light decayofmind/zsh-fast-alias-tips

⚙️ Configuration

Variable	Default value	Description
ZSH_FAST_ALIAS_TIPS_EXCLUDES		List of aliases to exclude (separated by space)
ZSH_FAST_ALIAS_TIPS_PREFIX	"💡 $(tput bold)"	The prefix of the Tips
ZSH_FAST_ALIAS_TIPS_SUFFIX	"$(tput sgr0)"	The suffix of the Tips

Differences from sei40kr/zsh-fast-alias-tips

I've been using the original plugin from @sei40kr for many years. However, since 2020 the project is not receiving much attention from the author, with issues and PRs not being addressed.

So I decided to fork the project to address some of the issues and PRs, which resulted even in refactoring and restructuring.

Here's the full list of changes between this fork and the original project:

• Zsh plugin is released together with binary, so second repo is not needed.
• Golang upgraded to 1.20.
• It's possible to compile the plugin's binary on installation.
• Configuration variables are prefixed with plugin name (ZSH_FAST_ALIAS_TIPS_).
• def-mathcer renamed to zsh-alias-matcher to provide more context.
• The plugin doesn't not require binary to be in PATH.
• Repo is structured as a common Golang package (with cmd and internal).
• Fixed Makefile.
• Added ci job to GitHub workflow, which will run golangci-lint and tests.
• Do not show tip if input command is shorter (#27).
• Build binary for Apple Silicon (#26).
• Zsh plugin file renamed to match the plugin name (#25).
• It's possible to exclude some unwanted aliases with ZSH_FAST_ALIAS_TIPS_EXCLUDES (#24).
• Some code refactoring to improve readability. For example - Abbr renamed to Expanded.