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CLI Part 1: Base Zsh Setup


Why Zsh?

Also, zsh is now the default on MacOS since Catalina.

Change shell to zsh (if needed)

Note: zsh should already be the default on Mac OS >= Catalina, so you can skip this step.

# if needed install the 'zsh' package with your package manager
$ chsh -s $(which zsh)

Make sure to exit and start a new session.

Zinit

Zinit is easily the cleanest and fastest shell plugin manager I’ve come across.

From the repo:

Ultra-flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.

Installing Zinit

Clone zinit into ~/.zinit

$ mkdir ~/.zinit && git clone https://github.com/zdharma/zinit.git ~/.zinit/bin

Init ~/.zshrc

Edit your ~/.zshrc in your preferred editor and these lines at the top:

Note: These lines should always be the first lines in your zshrc.

source ~/.zinit/bin/zinit.zsh

# enable completions
autoload -Uz compinit && compinit -du
autoload -U bashcompinit && bashcompinit # support bash completions

Finalize Zinit setup

Run the self-update

$ zinit self-update

Prettify

Powerlevel10k is a great prompt framework that provides easy, interactive configuration out of the box.

Add to your ~/.zshrc:

# theme framework
zplugin light "romkatv/powerlevel10k"

Load your zshrc again to install: $ source ~/.zshrc

Then just follow the interactive configuration menus to setup how you like, or feel free to run it later with p10k configure

p10k

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