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Installing zsh and oh-my-zsh on Windows
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  1. Install zsh from cygwin
  2. Install oh-my-zsh from https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh . Follow the manual instructions
  3. To make zsh default on ConEmu, create a task with C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /usr/bin/zsh - . Make it the defaut shell.
  4. To start a zsh shell on demand, add this batch script to your path or start menu or wherever.
start C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe /usr/bin/zsh -
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