mac-terminal-preferences

My guide to setting up your terminal on Mac to look as good as ever. Includes autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and getting rid of as much white text as possible😎

Here are some steps to improve your terminal on Mac OSX. Of course all of these steps are optional

I. Example

This is what my terminal looks like after adding everything

II. Configure zsh

• this tutorial requires zsh which is different from bash. Let's set that up

  # change your shell to be zsh instead of bash. Optional if you already have bash
  chsh -s /bin/zsh
  

• If you are moving from bash, it is important to know that .bash_profile is now .zshenv and you must define your variables there

• restart your terminal for everything to reset

III. Install oh-my-zsh

• oh-my-zsh is a great framework for managing your zsh configuration. It contains may plugins and themes. The instructions for install are there https://ohmyz.sh/

  # this will install oh-my-zsh
  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  

• restart your terminal for everything to reset

• colored-man-pages

• zsh-autosuggestions

• zsh-syntax-highlighting

• set your .vimrc to have vi syntax on (can copy the provided .vimrc file)