Terminal Setup

Terminal / Command Line I use

Terminator when I’m on Linux, iTerm2 when I’m on MacOS. I use both of them for the common (and easier way) of splitting the screen.

Bash or ZSH?

Recently I switched from Bash to zsh on all terminal applications I use. And that’s when I started trying out zsh plugins to do things without leaving the terminal 🤷🏽‍♂️

Setup

Theme

I have been using spaceship since I first discovered oh-my-zsh. pure looks great too but spaceship is more customizable.

For the Profile theme, I have used Dracula which is a theme available for almost all the developer tools (Even Sequel Pro).

zsh Plugins

• git: I guess this is on by default. It asynchronously checks with the remote branches for changes and also displays the status while you’re in a directory.
• sublime: Two great commands: st for opening Sublime Text & stt for opening the current directory in Sublime Text.
• wd: It’s like shortcuts for cd
• screen: Makes it easier to use detach and attach new screens.
• osx: Don’t use this plugin that much, but makes it easier to show and hide files and other stuff.

Other Command Line tools I use

• tldr: It’s TLDR for man pages inside the terminal. Great for looking up examples for commands.
• Shuttle: Not really a command line tool but a mac menu bar app which helps me organize all my SSH connections and open them easily in the Terminal.