A way to avoid zi alias?

[comfortablynick]

I have starting using zinit and I also use zoxide for directory jumping, which uses zi for interactive jumping. Is there a way to prevent zinit from taking this?

[vladdoster]

Ah thanks for reporting this edge case, but you can (pretty sure 😆) overcome this in a few ways.

However, to gain a bit more context, can you share how you currently load Zoxide? I don't use it personally.

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Here are three possible solutions that I'd suggest.

1.

Use z instead of zi, no changes needed to how you load Zoxide.

2.

When calling zoxide init, the following flag is available:

--cmd

Changes the prefix of the z and zi commands.

E.g.,

--cmd j

would change the commands to (j, ji)

--cmd cd

would replace the cd command

So you'd just need to choose different shortcut.

3.

I haven't tested this, but 99% sure adding the following ice would work given how zinit loads plugins.

atload'unalias zi'

And if the doesn’t work, try

atinit'unalias zi'

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Please let me know if you need anything else (i.e., clarification, solutions don't work, etc.). :^)

[vladdoster]

@comfortablynick Did any of the solutions I proposed solve your issue?

[comfortablynick]

Yes I am able to change the zoxide aliases, but my hope was to keep them the same. It would be great to be able to configure it through zinit.

[vladdoster]

The third solution is what you’d want to use then, no?

[strombringer]

This thread has been quiet for a while, but I just stumbled over the same issue in my setup.

I'm trying to get solution 3 to work (2 works, but muscle memory wants to type zi all the time), but am unsuccessful so far. I've tried both atload and atinit:

# Source/Load zinit
source "${ZINIT_HOME}/zinit.zsh"

# Remove "zi" alias for default zoxide alias to work
zinit ice atload'unalias zi'

I am using powerlevel10k instant prompt. Not sure if that influences any of the other commands. Just mentioning it because of the comment in the other thread about putting eval "$(zoxide init zsh)" at the end of .zshrc (which it already is for me).

I've only been using zinit for a few hours, so I'm not sure if the syntax for zinit ice ... is even correct 😅.

[mauromotion]

For the records, given I'm loading zsh-autosuggestions with an argument at load as my first plugin, I just had to add 'unalias zi' in the same list and it did the trick:

# Autosuggestions
zinit wait lucid atload'_zsh_autosuggest_start; unalias zi' light-mode for \
    zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

[sm1999]

For me z and zi are taken by zoxide.
Can you test by putting eval "$(zoxide init zsh)" at the end of .zshrc?

[vladdoster]

Mhm, this makes me wonder if using the wait ice would delay loading of zoxide so you wouldn’t need to run the evil command.

[Al3cLee]

For the record, I use

source "$HOME/.local/share/zinit/zinit.git/zinit.zsh"

# Remove zi alias set by zinit (conflicts with zoxide's zi or other tools)
(( ${+aliases[zi]} )) && unalias zi
# The ((...)) is a condition that checks if the zi alias is there; if it is removed,
# the bare `unalias zi` could return an error like "alias zi not found"

# other configs and loadings

eval "$(zoxide init zsh)"