My Terminal setup

A few friends have asked me about my terminal setup, so I decided to write up a small blog post about it.

This is what my terminal looks like in action:

As you can see there are several things going on there, the prompt shows the current Python environment and git branch and its status. There is also history-based autocomplete of commands, and recognized commands are shown in green (not found ones in red).

Another small example is a quick jump functionality for easy navigation:

This is not a detailed installation and setup guide, but more like a list of things and plugins I use to achieve what I have.

The basic setup:

• iTerm 2
• oh-my-zsh - Installation very well documented on the linked page
• Cobalt2 theme - This provides the color scheme, prompt etc.

Some extra plugins I like to use:

• zsh-autosuggestions (autocomplete)
• Syntax highlighting
• Z - this is the history-based jumping around plugin shown in the second gif above, adding z into the list of plugins in my ~/.zshrc worked for me

My whole list of enabled zsh plugins:

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plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions composer npm z brew osx symfony2 zsh-syntax-highlighting python pip pyenv)

I used this article when setting all this up, it has some good details in it.

I hope this helps, if you have any questions, suggestions, or some cool stuff you use in your terminal please let me know in the comments below!