oh-my-zsh plugins not working

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k_wisniewski picture k_wisniewski · Jul 23, 2011 · Viewed 40.2k times · Source

I've just discovered oh-my-zsh, but I can't get it to work. While themes work just perfectly, plugins do not. I have some plugins selected, eg. macports, but neither I get port command completion nor do appropriate aliases work. Here's my .zshrc:



    # Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
    export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

    # Set name of the theme to load.
    # Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
    # Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
    # time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
    export ZSH_THEME="steeef"

    # Set to this to use case-sensitive completion
    # export CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

    # Comment this out to disable weekly auto-update checks
    # export DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

    # Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
    # export DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

    # Uncomment following line if you want to disable autosetting terminal title.
    # export DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

    # Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
    # Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
    plugins=(git osx github macports textmate svn)

    source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

    # Customize to your needs...
    export     PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin/:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin

textmate and osx plugins also do not seem to work - zsh just complains about unknown command and stops. git and svn have some basic completion but I'm not sure whether it's done by plugin or just a normal zsh completion. Do I have to export something to use those plugins? Or if not, what to do to have that fixed?

Answer

T. Arboreus picture T. Arboreus · Mar 11, 2016

Make sure that you define your plugins variable before you initialize zsh: 

plugins=(git wd)
export ZSH=/home/<user>/.oh-my-zsh
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

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