Easy Zsh Config

• A simple but fast and out of the box configuration of zsh powered by oh-my-posh and zsh pulgins.

Features

• Configure Zsh in one command line
• Rich themes (powered by oh-my-posh)
• Syntax highlighting (powered by zsh-syntax-highlighting)
• Provide suggestions of command automatically (powered by zsh-autosuggestions)
• History substring search (powered by zsh-history-substring-search)
• A lot of system infomation or git infomation provided (powered by oh-my-posh):
  • Current directory
  • Time cost of commands
  • Git status
  • Git branches
  • Battery persontage
  • Local time
  • Root permission prompt
• No theme or git plugin script written in zsh -- faster start up

Usage

Apply to the Current User

• If you already have the file ~/.zshrc, you may want to back it up:

mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.bak

• And run the following command to apply the configuration file to you home directory:

  • If you don't need to customize your .zshrc file and you want to keep your .zshrc file to the current one, run the following command:

  ln -s /etc/zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc

  • If you want to customize your .zshrc file, run:

  cp /etc/zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc

Configure the Theme

• Edit line 2, ~/.zshrc, and replace default theme file path with your target theme file path.

Key Usages

• Up: History substring search(backward)
• Down: History substring search(forward)
• Ctrl-Up: History beginning search(backward)
• Ctrl-Down: History beginning search(forward)
• Ctrl-Left: Skip a whole word(left)
• Ctrl-Right: Skip a whole word(right)
• Tab: Command Completion
• Ctrl-W: Delete a whole word(left)
• Ctrl-U: Delete a whole line
• Del: Delete a character after the cursor