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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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, I realize that I should probably [...]
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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 the file.
Next up: setting [...]
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