I found prezto did too many things (replaced mkdir, cp, rm and ls with slightly incompatible wrappers for example). The worst was wrapping diff and make, both of which broke scripts I used.
oh-my-zsh seems from my experience to be less eager to replace built-in functionality (although, I'm not an expert in either).
Thanks for the heads up, looks like I'll pass on prezto...
I write scripts in bash, because most people probably aren't using zsh or have zsh installed. Also, when you feel like losing the magic, you can escape commands by prefixing them with backslash (i.e. \cat vs cat).
Oh god, I still swear at the whole "\rm" thing. I guess it's been a benefit a couple times where I might have deleted something by accident, but considering I mostly work on Git repositories, the inconvenience added by the wrappers is totally not worth it.
It's so bizarre to me that people would look at the base install of essentially dotfiles as canonical and unalterable. Fork Prezto and maintain your own version.
Generally the reason to go with such a kit is so you DO NOT have to do the maintenance... you gain the benefits of the community with little to no effort.
If we were talking about a single file of up to 100 lines or so, I would agree. But presto is huge! I don't want to read the whole thing and decide what bits I do and don't want.
You're really only going after the config files, though. .zpreztorc, and if you don't like some of Sorin's aliases (rm, ls, etc) you can take them out of the utility plugin. I've spent maybe an hour "working" on my fork in the last year.
It's weird, when I started using oh-my-zsh, everyone complained about its performance but it worked swiftly for me. Now after a year I can see the problem, even though I didn't change anything in the config. It's still acceptable on my desktop, but annoying to use on the server.
Been using oh-my-zsh for years, haven't had a single problem with it. Not sure what's going on where people are having so many problems with it being slow.
Same. I keep fearing something will creep up, considering how much I've heard, but it still works brilliantly, from my new iMac all the way down to my shared host on Webfaction.
What I've mostly noticed with it being slow is anything that might accidentally trigger it trying to ssh to another machine to get an autocomplete list. Since it won't maintain that connection it can cause it to happen multiple times while you're trying to tab complete different pieces. I imagine other similar problems with slow file systems or ones with a lot of latency (nfs?) might cause problems. I haven't noticed it elsewhere so maybe there's something I'm just not hitting.
Prezto and Antigen are the better solutions for ZSH users. Oh-my-zsh has some issues that Antigen addresses and Prezto does things in a different way entirely that's equally good.
Just switched to prezto yesterday, I doubt I'll be looking back.