Setup Terminal.md

Setup Terminal (macOS)

Install iTerm website

iTerm2 is an open source replacement for Apple's Terminal. It's highly customizable and comes with a lot of useful features.

brew install --cask iterm2

Install Oh My Zsh repo

Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Configure Oh My Zsh

Your config file is located at ~/.zshrc

nano ~/.zshrc

Install Starship repo

Starship is a minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

I would also recommend using the Fira Code Nerd Font for additional icons.

brew install starship

Suggested Plugins

z

z allows you to jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." Add it to your Oh My Zsh plugins list.

plugins=( [plugins...] z)

zsh-autosuggestions repo

It suggests commands as you type based on history and completions.

Install with

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Then add to your plugins list

plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-autosuggestions)

zsh-syntax-highlighting repo

This package provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh. It enables highlighting of commands whilst they are typed at a zsh prompt into an interactive terminal. This helps in reviewing commands before running them, particularly in catching syntax errors.

Install with

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Then add to your plugins list

plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-syntax-highlighting)

evalcache (Optional) repo

zsh plugin to cache eval loads to improve shell startup time

Install with

git clone https://github.com/mroth/evalcache ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/evalcache

Then add to your plugins list

plugins=( [plugins...] evalcache)

Then at the bottom of your ~/.zshrc replace existing evals with _evalcache.

Here is my example for the above packages

# Starship
_evalcache starship init zsh
# Pyenv
_evalcache pyenv init -

Full plugins list

After completing above steps your plugins list should look like

plugins=(z zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting evalcache)