Show & Tell: zinit setup for Termux on Android

Summary

Zinit works on Termux. FZF key-bindings and completions are loaded as local snippets from $PREFIX/share/fzf/ (where Termux’s fzf package installs them), not from GitHub.

Details

Termux-specific notes:

• $PREFIX is /data/data/com.termux/files/usr — package-managed files live there
• is-snippet ice is used to load local files as zinit snippets
• FZF ships its shell scripts in $PREFIX/share/fzf/
• zpcompinit and zpcdreplay are aliases for zicompinit and zicdreplay (both forms work)
• ZINIT[COMPINIT_OPTS]=-C skips the insecure-directory check on compinit (speeds up startup)

Examples

# OMZ libs (non-turbo, needed before first prompt)
zinit lucid light-mode for \
    OMZL::history.zsh \
    OMZL::completion.zsh \
    OMZL::key-bindings.zsh

# Completions + UX plugins in turbo
zinit wait lucid light-mode for \
    atinit"ZINIT[COMPINIT_OPTS]=-C; zpcompinit; zpcdreplay" \
    zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting \
    OMZP::colored-man-pages \
    OMZP::git \
    atload"!_zsh_autosuggest_start" \
    zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions \
    blockf atpull'zinit creinstall -q .' \
    zsh-users/zsh-completions

# FZF from Termux package (not GitHub)
zinit wait lucid is-snippet for \
    $PREFIX/share/fzf/key-bindings.zsh \
    $PREFIX/share/fzf/completion.zsh

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='--color 16'

Caveats

ZINIT[COMPINIT_OPTS]=-C passes -C to compinit, which skips the security check for completion files. This is needed on Termux because the prefix path is world-writable. Do not use -C on standard Linux/macOS systems where the security check is meaningful.