iTerm2 + oh my zsh + solarized + Meslo powerline font (OSX)

iterm2-solarized.md

iterm2-solarized_instructions.md

How to install

iTerm2

• Download and install iTerm2 (it has better color fidelity than the built in Terminal).

Get the iTerm color settings

• Solarized Dark theme
• Solarized Light theme
• More themes @ iterm2colorschemes

Just save it somewhere and open the file(s). The color settings will be imported into iTerm2. Apply them in iTerm through iTerm -> preferences -> profiles -> colors -> load presets. You can create a different profile, other than Default if you wish to do so.

Oh my zsh

More info here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Install with curl

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

When the installation is done, edit ~/.zshrc and set ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Install a patched font

• Meslo (the one in the screenshot). Click "view raw" to download the font.
• Others @ powerline fonts

Open the downloaded font and press "Install Font".

Set this font in iTerm2 (14px is my personal preference) (iTerm -> preferences -> profiles -> text).

• Regular Font -> "Change Font"
• Non-ASCII Font -> "Change Font"

Restart iTerm2 for all changes to take effect.

Further tweaking

Things like

• auto suggestions
• word jumping with arrow keys
• shorter prompt style
• syntax highlighting

can be found in the section below.

Auto suggestions (for oh-my-zsh)

Just follow these steps: https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions#oh-my-zsh

Enable word jumps

By default, word jumps (option + → or ←) do not work. You can make this work by adding the following to your ~/.zshrc

bindkey -e
bindkey '^[[1;9C' forward-word
bindkey '^[[1;9D' backward-word

If that does not work, an alternative is to go to iTerm - preferences - Keys.

Under global shortcut keys, add the following keyboard shortcuts:

Option + right

⌥→
Send Escape Sequence
f

Option + left

⌥←
Send Escape Sequence
b

Shorter prompt style

By default, your prompt will now show “user@hostname” in the prompt. This will make your prompt rather bloated. Optionally set DEFAULT_USER in ~/.zshrc to your regular username (these must match) to hide the “user@hostname” info when you’re logged in as yourself on your local machine. You can check your username value by executing whoami in the terminal.

Syntax highlighting

brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting

If you do not have or do not like homebrew, follow the the installation instructions instead.

After installation through homebrew, add

source /usr/local/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

to the end of your .zshrc file. After that, it's best to restart your terminal. Sourcing your ~/.zshrc does not seem to work well with this plugin.