Cookbook

Plugin development

In order to develop and load a plugin with Antigen you should configure the plugin as follows:

# Disable antigen's cache to always load latest changes from the plugin
export _ANTIGEN_CACHE_ENABLED=false

# Pass --no-local-clone to antigen's bundle to tell antigen to load the plugin
# from /path/to/plugin rather than cloning it
antigen bundle /path/to/plugin --no-local-clone

# Don't forget to tell antigen that you're done
antigen apply

Use antigen theme in the case you're developing a theme rather than a bundle.

If your bundle do use compinit in some way remember to always refresh your .zcompdump file. The easiest way is to run: