Example Oh My Zsh Setup

# A.
setopt promptsubst

# B.
zplugin ice wait"0" lucid
zplugin snippet OMZ::lib/git.zsh

# C.
zplugin ice wait"0" atload"unalias grv" lucid
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh

# D.
zplugin ice wait"0" lucid
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/colored-man-pages/colored-man-pages.plugin.zsh

# E.
zplugin wait"0" lucid
zplugin snippet OMZ::themes/dstufft.zsh-theme

# F.
zplugin ice wait"0" as"completion" lucid
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/docker/_docker

# G.
zplugin ice wait"0" atinit"zpcompinit" lucid
zplugin light zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting

  1. Most themes use this option.

  2. OMZ themes use this library.

  3. Some OMZ themes use this plugin. It provides many aliases – atload'' shows how to disable some of them (to use program rgburke/grv).

  4. Example functional plugin.

  5. Set OMZ theme.

  6. Load Docker completion

  7. Normal plugin (syntax-highlighting, at the end, like it is suggested).

Completions provided by git plugin are catched, but ignored. They can be executed using function zpcdreplay appended after zpcompinit; in atinit'' of G.

Above setup loads everything after prompt, because of preceding wait"0" ice. That is called Turbo-mode, it shortens Zsh startup time by 39%-50%. The same setup without Turbo mode (prompt will be initially set):

setopt promptsubst
zplugin snippet OMZ::lib/git.zsh
zplugin ice atload"unalias grv"
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/git/git.plugin.zsh
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/colored-man-pages/colored-man-pages.plugin.zsh
zplugin snippet OMZ::themes/dstufft.zsh-theme
zplugin ice as"completion"
zplugin snippet OMZ::plugins/docker/_docker
zplugin ice atinit"zpcompinit"
zplugin light zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting

Turbo mode can be optionally enabled only for a subset of plugins or for all plugins. It needs Zsh >= 5.3.