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Terminal Setup - Make your Mac terminal awesome

Anthony Lagrede on January 07, 2022

I recently installed my new MacBook and set up my terminal. Here I'll show you how to do the same for your MacBook. The final result T...

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Simon Wicki • Jan 9 '22

First time I saw the toolbar feature in a CLI, sweet. Time to toy around with that one.

I can recommend these two tools to improve the Git experience on the CLI:

diff-so-fancy: better visualisation of git diff
git lg: better visualisation than git log

Thomas Bredillet • Jan 9 '22

For install this two plugins :

git clone github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosugge... ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-hi... ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

The Introvert Coder • Jan 11 '22

Is there something like this for windows terminal/powershell?

Mohammed Zeeshan • Jan 11 '22

ohmyposh. scott hanselman has some oretty good articles and videos on setting this up

The Introvert Coder • Jan 14 '22

Thanks. I will check it out

Anthony Lagrede • Jan 11 '22 • Edited

Hi Sangy,
Yes, there is also ohmyposh. Take a look here for Windows 😊:
dev.to/alagrede/terminal-setup-mak...

The Introvert Coder • Jan 14 '22

Thanks. I will check it out

Ganesh Prasad • Jan 10 '22

I have been using the same setup for last 5 years now. I use the font firacode though.

Chidera • Jan 10 '22

Thanks for this, I found it helpful

PhanPhú • Jan 21 '22

it has work with mac chip m1?

Anthony Lagrede • Jan 24 '22

Hi @devphu, yes of course.

Ran Cohen • Feb 9 '22

Check out my post for more awesome features 🦄