Better Terminal Experience - Oh-My-Zsh + Bira Theme + Autosuggestions🔗
MacOS Installation with iTerm2 and Homebrew🔗
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-*'