Terminal Beautification

February 23, 2025About 350 wordsAbout 1 min...

Installing Oh My Zsh

Method	Command
curl	`sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`
wget	`sh -c "$(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`
fetch	`sh -c "$(fetch -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"`

Double-click each file and then click "Install". This will make the MesloLGS NF font available to all applications on your system.

Apple Terminal: Go to Terminal → Preferences → Profiles → Text, click on Change under Font and select the MesloLGS NF family.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git "${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k"

Open your ~/.zshrc file, locate the line that sets ZSH_THEME, and change its value to "powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k".

This is an Oh My Zsh plugin.

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

Now open the ~/.zshrc file for editing. Locate the plugins section—it should already include git. Add the syntax highlighting plugin as follows:

...
plugins=(
    git
    zsh-syntax-highlighting
)
...

Make sure that zsh-syntax-highlighting is the last plugin in the list.

Then, add the following line at the end of the file:

source ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Press ESC to exit insert mode, then type :wq to save and exit vi.

Execute the following command to apply the changes:

source ~/.zshrc

Similarly to syntax highlighting, this is another Zsh plugin called zsh-autosuggestions used for command suggestions and auto-completion.

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

Locate the plugins section and add this plugin:

plugins=(
    git
    zsh-syntax-highlighting
    zsh-autosuggestions
)

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