Oh My Zsh

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“Oh My Zsh will not make you a 10x developer…but you might feel like one.”

What is “Oh My Zsh”

This is what i copied from the project’s github[1]

A delightful community-driven (with 1,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. https://ohmyz.sh/

My configuration steps

The following commands shown are from these projects’ README.md.

References are listed below.

#1 Install Oh-My-Zsh

I prefered using Wget, so

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sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

#2 Install zsh-completion [2]

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

#3 Install zsh-syntax-highlight [3]

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

#4 Install zsh-autosuggestions [4]

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

#5 Install autojump [5]

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git clone git://github.com/wting/autojump.git
cd autojump
./install.py

#6 Edit .zshrc

Change theme to “agnoster”

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ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Add default user to hide machine name and user name

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DEFAULT_USER='doot'

make autojump available before source zsh.sh

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[[ -s /home/doot/.autojump/etc/profile.d/autojump.sh ]] && source /home/doot/.autojump/etc/profile.d/autojump.sh

add keybinding to accept autosuggestions, I use ‘,’ to accept suggestion

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zle -N autosuggest-accept
bindkey ',' autosuggest-accept

edit plguins, I enable wd docker etc. additionally.

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plugins=(git web-search catimg wd zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions docker zsh-completions cp docker-machine)

My Terminal

A simple video:

Reference

  1. Github, “robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh”
  2. Github, “zsh-users/zsh-completions”
  3. Github, “zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting”
  4. Github, “zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions”
  5. Github, “wting/autojump”