"ZSH" snowblock #272
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Finally created a new snowblock for ZSH[1]. > A shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful > scripting language. I've switched from Bash [2] to ZSH a while ago and the configurations have now been tested enough on a day-by-day basis to be persisted in igloo. When the `ZDOTDIR` environment variable is set ZSH will check for all the configuration files [3] using the specified path instead of the default location in the root of the user's home directory. This is one of the many great advantages of ZSH because it allows to create a clear bootstrap structure and helps to keep the home directory clean by not cluttering it with more ".dotfiles". In order to work across different platforms without the requirement of having the `ZDOTDIR` environment variable already initialized at shell start, e.g. through `pam_env` [4] or systemd via environment.d [5] (both only available on most Linux system), a minimal loader script file will be placed at `~/.zshenv`. Since this is always the first user-level file read by ZSH it sets the `ZDOTDIR` environment variable and then sources the actual main `zshenv` (e.g. `$ZDOTDIR/main.zsh`) file followed by other startup files also located in the directory instead of `$HOME/.zsh*`. More details about the actual content and architecture is available in the snowblock documentation. [1]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/zsh#Startup/Shutdown_files [4]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Environment_variables#Using_pam_env [5]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/environment.d.html GH-271 Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <[email protected]>
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Closes #271