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Zsh - extended Bourne shell

Useful options to set in your ~.zshrc​

Use vi keybindings

bindkey -v

Use emacs keybindings

bindkey -e

Bind Up and Down keys to history search

bindkey "^[[5~" history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey "^[[6~" history-beginning-search-forward

Configure how history should be managed

# Keep 1000 history in memory
HISTSIZE=1000
# Save 100000 history
SAVEHIST=100000
# Save history as ~/.zsh_history
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

# Appends every command to the history file once it is executed
setopt inc_append_history
# Reloads the history whenever you use it
setopt share_history
# Ignore duplication
setopt hist_ignore_dups
# Delete old ones if duplicated
setopt hist_ignore_all_dups
# Share history among terminal sessions
setopt sharehistory
# Verify before execute
setopt hist_verify

Avoid the error message "no matches found"

setopt +o nomatch

zsh-autosuggestions​

Manual installation​

  1. Clone the git repository somewhere (e.g. ~.zsh)

    > mkdir ~/.zsh
    > git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions

  2. Add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

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

Useful options to add in .zshrc​

# Color can be set by something like this
ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=#ff00ff,bg=cyan,bold,underline"
#ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE='fg=green'

# Ctrl + Space to accept the current suggestion
bindkey '^ ' autosuggest-accept

Pure prompt​

Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

Manual installation​

  1. Clone the repository somewhere (e.g. ~/.zsh):

    mkdir -p "$HOME/.zsh"
    git clone https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git "$HOME/.zsh/pure"

  2. Add the following lines to your ~/.zshrc:

    # Add the path to fpath
    fpath+=$HOME/.zsh/pure

    # Use pure prompt
    autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
    prompt pure