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Better Terminal Experience - Oh-My-Zsh + Bira Theme + Autosuggestions

MacOS Installation with iTerm2 and Homebrew

terminal screenshot

First of all we need to install Homebrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

This will install all the necessary requirements:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting git wget zsh
brew cask install iterm2 font-firacode-nerd-font

Install Oh-My-Zsh

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

~/.zshrc Config Modifications for MacOS

Set theme and fonts:

ZSH_THEME="bira"

Add this to the the end of ~/.zshrc

## Shell Integration and plugins
source /usr/local/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
source /usr/local/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
## Fix for Slow zsh-autosuggestions copy&paste
autoload -Uz bracketed-paste-magic
zle -N bracketed-paste bracketed-paste-magic
zstyle ':bracketed-paste-magic' active-widgets '.self-*'

Linux Installation

Requirements:

  • git
  • zsh
  • wget

The example below uses apt package manager (change to your package manager accordingly)

Install the Requirements

apt install -y git zsh wget

Install Oh-My-Zsh

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Install Autosuggestions, Syntax-Highlighting Plugins

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting

~/.zshrc Config Modifications for Linux

ZSH_THEME="bira"

Add this to the the end of ~/.zshrc

## Shell Integration and plugins
source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
## Fix for Slow zsh-autosuggestions copy&paste
autoload -Uz bracketed-paste-magic
zle -N bracketed-paste bracketed-paste-magic
zstyle ':bracketed-paste-magic' active-widgets '.self-*'
Last update: May 18, 2020

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