Comment by asadjb

I've been an oh-my-zsh user for many years now, being very happy with the very small set of features I use from it. Previously I could never think of trying to figure out how to replicate the features I need without the other features from oh-my-zsh, which does make the shell noticeably slower.

Just now, after reading this article, I used Claude code and have removed the OMZ config within 5 minutes. Here's my prompt - maybe others could find it useful. I ran this from `~/.oh-my-zsh`.

``` Here's my zsh config - I'd like to remove oh-my-zsh and replace the provided functionality with just raw zsh. i use starship for my prompt so i don't need any help there.

  can you explore the oh-my-zsh codebae and see what it would take to replicate the features it currently provides me in the shell?

  my zsh config below:

  export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh"
  ZSH_THEME=""
  DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"
  plugins=(direnv fzf)
  source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

--- CLAUDE RESPONSE --- Minimal Raw Zsh Replacement

  Since you use starship and have DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE=true, you can skip prompt and title-related code. Here's what you'd need:

  # Completions
  autoload -Uz compinit
  compinit

  zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
  zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z}'  # case insensitive

  # History
  HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
  HISTSIZE=50000
  SAVEHIST=10000
  setopt extended_history hist_expire_dups_first hist_ignore_dups
  setopt hist_ignore_space hist_verify share_history

  # Directory navigation
  setopt auto_cd auto_pushd pushd_ignore_dups pushdminus

  # Key bindings (emacs mode)
  bindkey -e
  bindkey '^[[H' beginning-of-line      # Home
  bindkey '^[[F' end-of-line            # End
  bindkey '^[[1;5C' forward-word        # Ctrl-Right
  bindkey '^[[1;5D' backward-word       # Ctrl-Left
  bindkey '^[[3~' delete-char           # Delete

  # Colors
  autoload -Uz colors && colors
  export CLICOLOR=1  # macOS ls colors

  # Plugins replacement
  eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"
  eval "$(fzf --zsh)"

```

Granted I've only done this like 5 minutes ago and might be missing functionality I'll realise later, but a quick few checks give me hope I have all the functionality I want.