ZSH Config

Apple changed the default shell to zsh from bash for quite sometime. let’s customize it.People often use OH MY ZSH, I used it for a year but it seems bloated to me. Below is my simple and effective configuration.

Changing the shell prompt to Starship

• Default prompt is ugly
• Starship is the best i used.[period]
• Install starship from https://starship.rs/
• Starship toml file config (~/.config/starship.toml)

add_newline = false

[character]
success_symbol = "[➜](bold green)"

# Clear visibility for exit codes
[status]
style = "bg:red"
symbol = "💣 "
format = '[\[$symbol$status\]]($style) '
disabled = false

# These symbols will only show when battery levels are 20% or less
[battery]
charging_symbol = "⚡️ "
discharging_symbol = "💀 "

[[battery.display]]  # "bold red" style when capacity is between 0% and 20%
threshold = 40
style = "bold red"

#[python]
#python_binary = "python3"

[swift]
symbol = "ﯣ (orange)"

• I have added a warning when my battery is below 40 to warn me and swift language symbol.
• Add the following line in .zshrc to start starship when shell initialize.

eval "$(starship init zsh)"

Key Bindings Changes

• Edit Command in nvim (choose the editor you like)

export EDITOR=nvim

• Bind edit command line command to Ctrl+x plus Ctrl+e [Work in Progress]

bindkey '^X^e' edit-command-line

• Once we set editor as vim, zsh changes bindings to vi, override with emacs bindings

bindkey -e

• Check all the key bindings

bindkey | less

reference: https://matija.suklje.name/zsh-vi-and-emacs-modes

ZSH autosuggestion

• I like to see suggestion(taken from previous bash history) when typing, ZSH Autosuggestion does that.
• Now i can’t work without it.

source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

Z Script Integration

• Easily jump between directories easily.
• src: https://github.com/rupa/z/
• I have copied the z.sh from the above github and place it /Users/sample/Scripts/Production/z.sh
• Adding it to the .zshrc

. /Users/sample/Scripts/Production/z.sh

History override

• Override history threshold.

HIST_STAMPS="dd.mm.yyyy"
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=100000
SAVEHIST=100000

FZF Integration

• FZF integration with shell.
• I favourite is ctrl+r, search through history with FZF.

[ -f ~/.fzf.zsh ] && source ~/.fzf.zsh

NeoVim as Manpager [Optional]

• Using neovim as Man page viewer (Why not? :p)

export MANPAGER="nvim -c 'set ft=man' -"

Alias

• Created alias to edit and source Zshell config
• Customize to your likings.

alias zshcnf="nvim ~/.zshrc"
alias zshsrc="source ~/.zshrc"