Plugins

Now is time to setup some useful plugins for iTerm.

zsh-autosuggestions

Fish-like fast/unobtrusive autosuggestions for zsh.

It suggests commands as you type, based on command history. This is my favourite plugin, it will save you a lot of time spent in typing commands in our terminal.

Installing with Oh My Zsh

  1. Clone this repository into $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins (by default ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins)

    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

  2. Add the plugin to the list of plugins for Oh My Zsh to load (open ~/.zshrc):

    plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions)

  3. Start a new terminal session.

For other types of installation go here.

Syntax highlighting

This package provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh. It enables highlighting of commands whilst they are typed at a zsh prompt into an interactive terminal. This helps in reviewing commands before running them, particularly in catching syntax errors.

Installing with Oh My Zsh

  1. Clone this repository in oh-my-zsh's plugins directory:

     git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

  2. Activate the plugin in ~/.zshrc:

     plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-syntax-highlighting)

  3. Source ~/.zshrc to take changes into account:

     source ~/.zshrc

Enable natural text selection

By default, word jumps (option + → or option + ←) and word deletions (option + backspace) do not work.

To enable these, go to "iTerm => Preferences => Profiles => Keys => Load Preset... => Natural Text Editing"

How to Customize Your Command Prompt

For further customisation of your prompt, you can follow a great guide here: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-customize-your-command-prompt--net-24083

List of useful plugin for development

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
# Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup.
plugins=(
  git
  git-flow
  colored-man-pages
  colorize
  github
  jira
  node
  nvm
  nvm-auto
  vagrant
  virtualenv
  pip
  python
  brew
  osx
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-nvm
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
)

NVM auto switch node version 

export NVM_DIR="/Users/tony/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm

nvm_auto_switch
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/imagemagick@6/bin:$PATH"

Android env variables

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator

Others: ruby rvn and NPM_TOKEN

if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mariadb@10.2/bin:$PATH"

# Add RVM to PATH for scripting. Make sure this is the last PATH variable change.
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin"
export NPM_TOKEN="YOUR NPM TOKEN"

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