prezto | My personal zsh settings | Command Line Interface library

When running in a regular terminal, unless you capture or redirect git's output with $(git ...) or git ... | otherprogram, isatty(1) is true, so git automatically invokes a pager to let users read content too long to fit on one screen.

1. See if the problem goes away without a pager.

   • Does git --no-pager branch still have issues?

2. Check which pager is in use.

   • declare -p GIT_PAGER will show a pager configured only for git via the environment.
   • git config core.pager will show a pager configured only for git via its config files.
   • declare -p PAGER will show a pager configured to be used by your OS in general.

3. Check how that pager is configured, and try clearing or simplifying that configuration.

   • If your pager is LESS, declare -p LESS will show options configured for it via the environment, and unset LESS will temporarily clear those options.
   • If your pager is MORE, declare -p MORE will show options configured for it via the environment, and unset MORE will temporarily clear those options.
   • For another pager, consider reading its manual.

The OP had LESS='-F -g -i -M -R -S -z-4' exported in their environment. The -F argument to less instructs it to exit if there's less than one page of content to be displayed.

On the OP's (MacOS) system, the stock version of less, when called with -F, exited before emitting the original content to stdout; this could be repaired either by removing that flag, or by installing a newer version of less.

Add this to your ~/.zshrc

The magic is the use of Glob Qualifiers.
At the end of a filename, you can add parenthesis with filters.

.zcompdump(Nm-20)) will select this file only if modified less than 20 days ago.
The N says to not display an error (NULL_GLOB).

It's missing a h to have Nmh-20 to get it if modified less than 20 h ago.

man zshexpn then search for Glob Qualifiers.

Try it yourself with

You can keep prezto as a submodule, but change its URL to point to a fork of that repo that you own.
Meaning, you need to fork https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto.git, and then change the URL seen in the skwp/dotfiles/.gitmodules file: see "Changing remote repository for a git submodule".
From there, you can make any new commit you want in that submodule, add, commit and push (to your fork), then go back to the main parent repo, add, commit and push (also to your fork).

The other approach, still assuming you have forked the main dotfile repo, would be to un-submodule the prezto submdule: see "un-submodule a git submodule".

I disabled the cursor highlighter and now it works!

.zpreztorc

It looks pretty messy at first glance, but once you break it into its parts it's quite simple. This is an example of parameter expansion and extended globbing support in ZSH. If you look higher up in the function from which this code sample is, you'll see they set:

This is caused by the no-clobbering setting which protects you from accidently overwriting a file: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Options.html#index-file-clobbering_002c-allowing

You can either force it using the pipe character:

It is likely because of your CLOBBER option in zsh shell