My zsh config so I can stop recreating it.

This is my personal zsh config so I won't be accepting issues. If you end up using this and like it and find ways to improve it, just fork it and put up a PR and if I like the changes I'll adopt it. Otherwise, this is for my personal use.

There's two "dependency libraries" for this script. It's in quotes because the script fetches the sources directly from github so you don't have to pre-install anything.

https://ohmyz.sh/

This is a super popular zsh library that includes a ton of plugins. I admittedly use very few plugins by default (just the git one). If you want to customize the experience more, you can find all the plugins in the oh-my-zsh wiki.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure

This is a theme for zsh that is super simple. I like the simple interface, and the super great git information that comes as part of the prompt. It tells you:

• what branch you're on
• if your branch is dirty
• if the remote has changes not present in your local
• if your local has changes committed not present in the remote

The other really great piece of info is that the command prompt will contain the duration of the previous command.

The script assumes that you already have zsh installed. It comes pre-installed on MacOS so you probably don't need to do anything. To confirm run:

which zsh

The output should be something like /bin/zsh.

If the output is zsh not found then stop here and go to this link to get zsh installed.

If you don't already have it installed, install iterm2 and never open the bare MacOS terminal again. This is not necessarily related to this config, but if you don't already use it, it will be such a huge UX win for you.

I usually want my terminals to open to the directory that contains all my git repos. This is usually something like ~/code or ~/work or ~/{company_name}. Since this is super custom, this script assumes you want to use the $HOME directory (or ~).

If you wish to change this, before running this script, run export DEFAULT_SHELL_DIR=~/code and replace ~/code with your preferred destination.

If a terminal is opened from VSCode, it navigates to the opened repo, which is much better UX. If a terminal is opened from VSCode, we don't change the shell directory.

Run the following to install the dependencies and set up the config.

./install.sh

If the command fails with zsh: permission denied then run this command to make the file executable.

chmod +x ./install.sh

When this succeeds, run the install command above.

oh-my-zsh and pure both come with a bunch of aliases built in, including a ton of git-based aliases. I don't add any custom ones. To see the full list, run alias.