there are many other things set in the zsh: alias, global aliases, options (setopt) they can be set with elektra too, you need to import them: set them with kdb set user/alias/command alias if you have some alias in your .zshrc, you can convert them with vi, copy them into a file, and modify with: :%s:alias *:kdb set user/zsh/alias/: to get executeable which sets the aliases