Why zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins are not included by default?

[bolinocroustibat]

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zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting

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I'm just wondering why marvellous zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins are not included by default in oh-my-zsh.
My guess is the vast, vast majority of people who use oh-my-zsh install those as well, in the custom plugins folder.
Any good reason not to include them in the oh-my-zsh repo? The user could just have to activate them in the config after installing oh-my-zsh.

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Oh, and oh-my-zsh is wonderful work, thank you!

[aaronliu0130]

same question for powerlevel10k. there's a policy of not adding new stuff but can't some themes be unbundled?

[Timvdlinde]

Indeed, would be nice to have it by default.

[bitsnaps]

They aren't even included as plugins (or I can't find them in plugins page)?

[aaronliu0130]

@bitsnaps The point is that they aren’t bundled as plugins so we suggest that OMZ should bundle (aka include) them.

[carlosala]

Hi! We have this idea in our minds! The main blocker around it is that these plugins might update frequently, and we didn't want to check it manually. We just implemented #12109, a great way to track dependencies inside oh my zsh. There's stuff to polish before adding these plugins, but it'll be sooner than later! 🚀