ANTIDOTE-LOAD(1)

✨ ANTIDOTE-LOAD ✨

okay bestie, welcome to antidote-load — it's a page in the Antidote Manual, and its whole job is statically sourcing bundles 🎀 no cap, that's literally the one line summary. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

antidote load [<bundlefile> [<staticfile>]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, fr fr: antidote-load takes your bundle file and turns it into a static load file, and then it sources that static file. that's the whole arc, that's the plot. ✨

the default bundle file — the one it grabs when you don't hand it anything — is ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_plugins.txt 💖

not feeling that path? you can override it with this zstyle, iconic behaviour tbh:

zstyle ':antidote:bundle' file /path/to/my/bundle_file.txt

and the default static file — the one it generates — is ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_plugins.zsh 🌈

same deal, override it with a zstyle if you wanna live your own truth:

zstyle ':antidote:static' file /path/to/my/static_file.zsh

look at us, customising paths, main character energy honestly 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows you the help documentation 📖 so you never have to guess, love that for you
• [<bundlefile>] — the plugins file it'll source, for when you're not using the default. defaults to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_plugins.txt or whatever the zstyle setting says 🍓
• [<staticfile>] — the static plugins file it'll generate, for when you're not using the default. defaults to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_plugins.zsh or whatever the zstyle setting says 🧚

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💀 BUGS 💀

found something cursed? take it straight to the GitHub Issues, bestie:

https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote/issues

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Copyright (c) 2021-2026 Matt McElheny
• antidote contributors: https://github.com/mattmc3/antidote/graphs/contributors

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

MIT — periodt. 🫶

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💜 this page is from the antidote source, and its date stamp is 1970-01-01. that's right, the epoch itself, the original girlie of timestamps ✨ lowestkey iconic. ty for reading, go source those bundles, ily <3 🎀