Using antigen with chezmoi.

[Noahyt]

I am new to the world of chezmoi and zsh customization in general.

I know that chezmoi has the option to install external libraries using the .chezmoiexternal.toml file.

How does this relate/conflict with using antigen to manage packages?

Is there a preferred way to integrate both tools? I've looked around a bit and the only reference I could find was this dotfile.

[twpayne]

I'm not familiar with antigen (I use vim-plug) but I would expect antigen and chezmoi externals to conflict if you attempt to use both simultaneously. If antigen updates files managed by chezmoi then chezmoi will detect that the file has been modified since chezmoi last wrote it and you will get a prompt the next time you use chezmoi to update the file. This is prevent chezmoi from blindingly overwriting any local changes that you might want to keep.

I would suggest the following approaches:

1. Either, use a chezmoi external to install antigen and then use antigen to manage your zsh plugins, as HHousen has done.
2. Or, use chezmoi externals for all zsh plugins, and don't use antigen at all.
   Both approaches work, but should not be mixed.