Jongwook Choi wookayin

Comparison of ZSH frameworks and plugin managers

Changelog

update 1: add a FAQ section
update 2: benchmark chart and feature comparison table
update 3:
- improve the table with missing features for antigen
- new zplg times result

TLDR

What are these?

Functions that allow you to call a function not more than once in a given timeframe.

Throttling on the leading edge

This can be illustrated with timing diagrams. In the following diagrams, f designates call to the throttled function, t is the period where the timer is running, and x shows you the actual execution point of the throttled function.

f 1  2  3  4  5  6

TL;DR
Zsh initializations
- Zsh way of $PATH
- the special macOS
/usr/libexec/path_helper

The .*shrc file

Semantic Highlighting in Neovim

What is Semantic Highlighting?
Default Highlighting
Using LspTokenUpdate for Complex Highlighting
- Highlighting Based on More Than One Modifier
Dealing with Ambiguity

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

	function! Sort(type, ...)
	'[,']sort
	endfunction
	nmap <silent> <key> :set opfunc=Sort<CR>g@

	" usage:
	" <key>ip
	" <key>G

	#!/bin/bash
	# Inspired on https://david-kerwick.github.io/2017-01-04-combining-zsh-history-files/
	set -e
	history1=$1
	history2=$2
	merged=$3

	echo "Merging history files: $history1 + $history2"

	test ! -f $history1 && echo "File $history1 not found" && exit 1

	# Runs "$@" in a subshell with the caller's options, sets reply=(stdout stderr)
	# and returns the status of the executed command. Both stdout and stderr are
	# captured completely, including NUL bytes, incomplete UTF-8 characters and
	# trailing LF, if any.
	#
	# Example:
	#
	# % zsh-run-command ls -d ~ /garbage
	# % printf 'status: %s\nstdout: %s\nstderr: %s\n' $? "${(q+)reply[@]}"
	# status: 2