ZSH, Fonts and a Beautiful Terminal

Let's focus on our primary source of information in the development world—the terminal.

I know most of you may want to use newer applications to handle terminal operations like iTerm2 or others. Still, personally, the built-in terminal application can take a lot and can be a potent application.

Fonts

The first step is to install the basic fonts needed in our terminal.

# Nerd Fonts
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install font-hack-nerd-font

• Copy Fonts

If you cloned or forked the repository you can execute the following command

cp -r "$(pwd)/fonts/"* ~/Library/Fonts

ZSH

The oh my Zsh project is a good terminal add-on to be added in our development environment.

• Install

# Oh My ZSH
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Set the configuration file

If you cloned or forked the repository you can execute the following command

ln -s $(pwd)/zsh/zshrc ~/.zshrc

Plugins

Here are some plugins that can be used alognside with Oh My Zsh, and make your experience much better.

If you cloned or forked the repository and used the configuration file, those plugins are required.

• zsh-autosuggestions

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

• zsh-syntax-highlighting

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

• zsh-async

git clone https://github.com/mafredri/zsh-async ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/async

• zsh-nvm

git clone https://github.com/lukechilds/zsh-nvm ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-nvm

• powerlevel10k

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/powerlevel10k

If you cloned or forked the repository you can execute the following command

ln -s $(pwd)/zsh/p10k ~/.p10k.zsh

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These steps are available only for those who cloned or forked the repository

Terminal

To add some new configurations and special tools to the terminal, you can execute the following command to import those.

• Set the configuration file

ln -s $(pwd)/bash/bash_alias ~/.bash_alias
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/profile ~/.profile
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/profile ~/.android
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/profile ~/.flutter
ln -s $(pwd)/bash/profile ~/.nvm-load

Attention, because inside the files .android, .flutter, .nvm-load there are specific configurations, with version based, please edit the file with the appropriate version before loading those.

Theme

You can change the Mac Terminal application appearance with some quick steps.

1. Terminal > Settings Tab
2. Click "Gear" icon
3. Click Import...
4. Select the materialshell-dark.terminal file
5. Click Default