Setup guide for ZSH in GitHub codespaces

Krish — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:21:04 +0000

Setup ZSH

This post will guide you through to set up starship along with zsh suggestions and zsh syntax highlight for your codespaces.

This is an optional package if you want to beautify your terminal. Else you can also use any other ZSH themes.

You cannot install starship in ZSH shell at the time of writing this. You can switch to bash.

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

echo "eval \"\$(starship init zsh)\"" >> ${ZSOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

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

You can change the path to anything you want. Here we use ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions

echo "source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh" >> ${ZSOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting

echo "source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

Note: If you see a Systemd in the terminal and want to remove it then follow the next command

mkdir -p ~/.config && printf "[container]\ndisabled = true" >> ~/.config/starship.toml

Voila! You are ready to use ZSH with Starship and ZSH Auto Suggestions and Syntax Highlighting.

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