Using prezto-contrib w/ prezto

[blogabe]

Is there preferred way to import prezto-contrib? I can source it my zsh_plugins.txt file which will install is under $ANTIDOTE_HOME/belak/prezo-contrib but contrib instructions prefer to have it install at $ANTIDOTE_HOME/sorin-ionescu/prezto/contrib?

I like the first, default, option of having contrib install under $ANTIDOTE_HOME, but antidote is looking for a file it cannot find: $ANTIDOTE_HOME/belak/prezto-contrib/contrib-prompt/contrib-prompt.plugin.zsh

zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule-dirs $ANTIDOTE_HOME/belak/prezto-contrib is set and here's how I'm calling it in zsh_plugins:

belak/prezto-contrib path:contrib-prompt/functions kind:autoload
belak/prezto-contrib path:contrib-prompt

[mattmc3]

TLDR; Use this in your .zsh_plugins.txt

belak/prezto-contrib path:contrib-prompt/functions kind:fpath

Long answer:

As you probably know by now, antidote does not have any special handler for Prezto, Oh My Zsh, etc. Instead, it provides annotations to let you load plugins and frameworks however you choose. Thus, there's also no special logic in antidote to handle Prezto Contrib repos. Unless you choose to specifically load sorin-ionescu/prezto (meaning not really using antidote to manage your prezto plugins), directories like $ANTIDOTE_HOME/sorin-ionescu/prezto/contrib and zstyles like zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule-dirs $ANTIDOTE_HOME/belak/prezto-contrib have no meaning to antidote are not used/necessary. Loading sorin-ionescu/prezto with antidote is not recommended - if you do this, you might as well use Prezto the conventional way.

I like the first, default, option of having contrib install under $ANTIDOTE_HOME

Good, because that's the recommended way with antidote.

but antidote is looking for a file it cannot find: $ANTIDOTE_HOME/belak/prezto-contrib/contrib-prompt/contrib-prompt.plugin.zsh

If you look at how Kaleb has his contrib-prompt repo set up, there is no init.zsh file or contrib-prompt.plugin.zsh for that subplugin. That's because prompt plugins that use Zsh's promptinit system are a bit weird. Running code for a prompt plugin isn't strictly necessary because promptinit uses whatever functions are in fpath to determine what prompts are available. Meaning, you should not autoload of declare prompt functions - it's fpath only. This isn't just true for Kaleb's prezto-contrib - it's true for all prompt plugins that rely on promptinit:

# .zsh_plugins.txt

# add prompt plugins to fpath before initializing prompt system
sindresorhus/pure kind:fpath
romkatv/powerlevel10k kind:fpath
belak/prezto-contrib path:contrib-prompt/functions kind:fpath

# now initialize prompt system
sorin-ionescu/prezto path:modules/prompt

So, TLDR: use this line: belak/prezto-contrib path:contrib-prompt/functions kind:fpath.

[blogabe]

Amazing. Thank you!