Oh My Zsh

calendar February 17, 2021 nav_categories Tech nav_tags oh my zsh nav_tags shell nav_tags zsh nav_tags macos nav_tags osx

When MACOS changed the default shell from bash to zsh, I waited a bit, as I'd used bash for years and years, and was really familiar with it.

Post-clean install of Big Sur, I left my default shell as zsh.

Doing some reading, installed Oh My Zsh

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

Installing Oh My Zsh was pretty simple:

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

Mandatory disclaimer: As with any script, make sure you are fully aware of what the script does before running it. I always install at least 2 plugins: zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting

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

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

Once installed, edit the ~/.zshrc file, and add the 2 plugins to the plugins line:

grep "^plugins" ~/.zshrc
plugins=(git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Reference:

Oh My Zsh homepage https://ohmyz.sh/