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Example Minimal Setup#

zinit wait lucid light-mode for \
  atinit"zicompinit; zicdreplay" \
      zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting \
  atload"_zsh_autosuggest_start" \
      zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions \
  blockf atpull'zinit creinstall -q .' \
      zsh-users/zsh-completions
  • wait – load 0 seconds (about 5 ms exactly) after prompt (Turbo mode),
  • lucid – silence the under-prompt messages ("Loaded {name of the plugin}"),
  • light-mode – load the plugin in light mode, in which the tracking of plugin (i.e. activity report gathering, accessible via the zinit report {plugin-spec} subcommand) is being disabled; note that for Turbo mode, the performance gains are almost 0, so in this mode you can load all plugins with the tracking, i.e.: the light-mode ice can be removed from the command,
  • atpull'' – execute after updating the plugin – the command in the ice will install any new completions,
  • atinit'' – execute code before loading plugin,
  • atload'' – execute code after loading plugin,
  • zicompinit – equals to autoload compinit; compinit,
  • zicdreplay – execute compdef … calls that plugins did – they were recorded, so that compinit can be called later (compinit provides the compdef function, so it must be ran before issuing the taken-over compdefs with zicdreplay),
  • syntax-highlighting plugins (like fast-syntax-highlighting or zsh-syntax-highlighting) theoretically expect to be loaded last, even after the completion initialization (i.e. compinit function), however, in practice, you just have to ensure that such plugin is loaded after plugins that are issuing compdefs – which basically means completions that aren't using the underscore-starting function file; the completion initialization still has to be performed before syntax-highlighting plugin, hence the atinit'' ice, which will load compinit right before loading the plugin,
  • the syntax-highlighting and suggestions plugins are loaded early for a better user experience.

The same setup but without using Turbo mode (i.e. no wait'' ice) and without the for-syntax:

zinit ice blockf atpull'zinit creinstall -q .'
zinit light zsh-users/zsh-completions

autoload compinit
compinit

zinit light zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting

zinit light zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Without Turbo the syntax-highlighting plugin can be loaded at the end, as it doesn't make any difference (the prompt will appear after loading all objects, anyway).