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Software Development, version 3.0

Set Your zsh Prompt

Since the beginning of time, all the cool kids have had really cool shell prompts. It’s a great place to display helpful information, and zsh has features that let you have a flexible, informative, unobtrusive prompt.

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Make the zsh zle handle “words” correctly

Snippet from my .zshrc: # This controls what the line editor considers a word. By default it # includes ‘/’, which makes it so that when I M-del (attempting to erase # a directory in a path), I erase the whole path. Annoying. # WORDCHARS=’*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>’ # (default) WORDCHARS=’*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>’ After living with this for a while, [...]

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Moving to zsh

To get started: sudo aptitude install zsh chsh /bin/zsh That’s pretty simple. Of course, you’re not running zsh yet… either logout and log back in or just run zsh at the prompt. You’ll get a series of prompts to configure a .zshrc. It only takes a few minutes, so run through the options and save [...]

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