I do something similar to this and have the majority of my zshrc version controlled and publicly available. http://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/shared-zshrc http://

I do something similar to this and have the majority of my zshrc version controlled and publicly available. http://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/shared-zshrc http://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/shared-zshrc I put together a blog post on how to use it along with some descriptions of specific aliases/functions that I find really useful: http://naleid.com/blog/2009/05/13/shared-zshrc-file/ http://naleid.com/blog/2009/05/13/shared-zshrc-file/ Global aliases are one of the things I love about zshrc. In addition to that, the file globbing is a huge productivity benefit. Being able to use "/foo.txt", rather than "find . -name foo.txt" is nice. I think that everyone should also learn the cursor movement keybindings (which default to the emacs ones instead of vi ones). I think these might be the same in bash (where C is control and M is meta, likely alt/option or escape): * C-r - search backwards through history * C-a - beginning of line * M-b - move back one word * C-b - move back one letter * C-f - move forward one letter * M-f - move forward one word * C-e - end of line * C-s - search forwards through history