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I spend a lot of time in terminal. Most of it goes in reviewing code, managing servers, running tests etc.

These are the tools I use. I hope to keep this list updated. It should be helpful during system re-installs.

Libraries

Shell: zsh
This is what runs the commands. ZSH is installed by default.

Prompt: Starship
Prompt is the information we see about the current env. Starship automatically shows active git branch, virtual env, python version, AWS login, docker and other such things.

Terminal: iTerm2
The main app we use to interact with shell. iTerm is most used.

Antidote makes it easy to install zsh extensions.
Direnv allows me to run some commands automatically when I cd into a directory. I mostly use it to activate virtual envs.
Just allows me create small scripts / commands in any language. I have two most used commands: just review and just finish-review

zsh-syntax-highligting: it highlights the variables and directories in commands. Makes small things better.
zsh-notify: this is very useful! Sometimes the commands take few minutes to complete. In the meantime I open browser and get lost in the web. This shows a notification when the command completes.

I like the tall hight in MonoLisa. This is my default coding font.
FireCode is for ligatures (non-ascii).

Config

This is the config for my .zshrc file.

# set default editor
export EDITOR="vi"
# History settings
HISTSIZE=10000
SAVEHIST=10000
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history
setopt appendhistory
setopt histignorealldups
setopt sharehistory
# Auto-completion
autoload -Uz compinit && compinit
# Enable Direnv (auto envoirment)
eval "$(direnv hook zsh)"
# use startship prompt
eval "$(starship init zsh)"
# antidote
source /opt/homebrew/opt/antidote/share/antidote/antidote.zsh
source <(antidote init)
antidote bundle zsh-users/zsh-completions branch:main
antidote bundle zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
antidote bundle marzocchi/zsh-notify
# run `antidote update` to update all packages
# update brew paths for zsh-completions
if type brew &>/dev/null; then
  FPATH=$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions:$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-completions:$FPATH
  autoload -Uz compinit
  compinit
fi
# zsh-notify
zstyle ':notify:*' command-complete-timeout 3
# MySQL in path is not there when installed using .dmg
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# Aliases
alias ls='ls -GFh'
alias git-branch='git branch --sort=-committerdate'
## Don't destroy tables schema after finishing test
alias fej='python -Wa manage.py test --keepdb --verbosity=2 --settings=$DJANGO_TEST_SETTINGS'
alias fes='echo "$DJANGO_TEST_SETTINGS"'
## Destroy tables schema after finishing test
alias fej-reset='python manage.py test --verbosity=2 --settings=$DJANGO_TEST_SETTINGS'

Settings

These are few of the settings in iTerm.

Enable Dimming

Dim inactive panes and background windows

Default working directory
profiles > general > working directory > advanced config

My Command Line setup

Libraries

Config

Settings

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