zgen is a lightweight plugin manager for Zsh inspired by Antigen. Keep your .zshrc clean and simple.
zgen provides you a few simple commands for managing plugins. It installs your plugins and generates a static init script that will source them for you every time you run the shell.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/tarjoilija/zgen
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Developer: Eero-Antero Säisä
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
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