myzshelconf

Table of content:

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Oh My ZSH
  • Plugins Installation
• Configuration
• Acknowledgement

Introduction

The Z shell (also known as zsh) is a Unix shell that is built on top of bash (the default shell for macOS) with additional features. It's recommended to use zsh over bash. It's also highly recommended to install a framework with zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot nicer.

Installation

Here, we will start z shell installation.

Mac

• Most mac already have this feature, zsh will be default after Oh My Zsh installation.

Linux

• To check, use this command echo $0. If the output is bash, proceed installation with command below:

  Ubuntu

  sudo apt install zsh

  Fedora

  sudo dnf install zsh

  Arch

  sudo pacman -S zsh

2. Check zsh version

   zsh --version

3. This feature require modified fonts, . NerdFonts need to be installed. Since there was too many font available online, you may download here:

   • Source 1
   • Source 2

4. After install, terminal need to be restart.

Oh My ZSH

1. To begin installing omz, copy and paste the code below to any terminal. Please follow the required (pre & post-process) step and make sure your terminal uses zsh by default.

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

Plugins Installation

1. Install zsh-autosuggestions

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

2. Install zsh-syntax-highlighting

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

3. Install zsh-autocomplete

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

Configuration

1. Open terminal, open zshrc configuration file and start configure basic needs.

   sudo nano ~/.zshrc

2. Find ZHS_THEME="robbyrussel" to ZHS_THEME="your_theme". Checkout this wiki and choose.

3. Find plugins=(git) section on the same documents. Add this comment after git,

   • i.e. git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autocomplete

4. Change chosen nerdfonts to your terminal.

Acknowledgement

arch aur | oh my zsh