Customize your ZSH (auto-suggestions, prompt theme, syntax highlighting and more)

No Oh-My-Zsh needed in this ZSH setup! We walk through a lite-weight zshell customization including vi-mode, auto-suggestions, syntax highlighting, zsh-history-substrings, prompt styling and more.

Zsh is highly configurable and will give you a big productivity boost over vanilla BASH, while also remaining POSIX ready, and adopting many of the best aspects of fish!

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - installing zsh
03:00 - preview customized zshell
04:53 - changing our shell
05:28 - .zshrc setup
10:28 - understanding the different config files
13:13 - zshenv
15:35 - prompt theme (powerlevel10k)
22:48 - changing your prompt icon
24:10 - aliases
26:37 - setopt options
29:45 - zsh-autosuggestions
31:30 - syntax highlighting
34:06 - fish like history substring search
37:38 - shell with vi-mode (and without)
41:40 - wrap up and thanks for watching!

LINKS:

0. my dotfiles for reference
https://github.com/radleylewis/dotfiles
1. zsh website
https://www.zsh.org/
2. powerlevel10k prompt theme
https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
3. fast-syntax-highlighting
https://github.com/zdharma/fast-synta...
4. zsh-autosuggestions
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-auto...
5. zsh-history-substring-search
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-hist...
6. vi-mode
https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-...
7. StackExchange post outlining the sequence of config file loading
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questi...
8. helpful terminal shortcuts (for non-vim users)
https://itsfoss.com/linux-terminal-sh...
9. nerdfont cheatsheet
https://www.nerdfonts.com/cheat-sheet