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It used to be that I’d end up on older systems with only cshell as the default. So immediately would install bash for what I had expected to be default behavior

It used to be that I’d end up on older systems with only cshell as the default. So immediately would install bash for what I had expected to be default behavior by that point. zsh never clicked for me though, until I used oh-my-zsh, which allows for sharing custom extensions from folks. And it’s great, and superior to bash. I used to not care, but these little improvements are worth it.

yboris 4y ago
+1 on oh-my-zsh I recommend Oh My Zsh with the zsh-autosuggestions [1] and zsh-syntax-highlighting [2] plugins. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting And my custom theme ;) https://github.com/whyboris/dotfiles/blob/main/yboris.zsh-theme https://github.com/whyboris/dotfiles/blob/main/yboris.zsh-th...
- xwowsersx 4y ago
  hmm, I just added zsh-syntax-highlighting to my plugins and sourced .zshrc and got "[oh-my-zsh] plugin 'zsh-syntax-highlighting' not found" Any ideas?
  - yboris 4y ago
    Installation instructions for the plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/INSTALL.md#oh-my-zsh https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/ma... Looks like you need to clone the .git repository into your oh-my-zsh directory
    - xwowsersx 4y ago
      Thanks
- anamexis 4y ago
  I've recently moved over to slimzsh. As the name implies, it is lightweight and fast, but provides all of the modern niceties and defaults that I want. https://github.com/changs/slimzsh https://github.com/changs/slimzsh
- hellohowareu 4y ago
  fancy, with useful plugins. my top pick: zsh + oh-my-zsh + powerline10k on iterm2 alternative, less fancy, but nice if you want something simple yet decent: zim on alacritty
bombcar 4y ago
I really wonder how much of the zsh "love" comes from two things: 1. it being the new Mac default 2. oh-my-zsh And if the second is important, I wonder how many people have never tried anything similar for bash, such as https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash (never used it myself, but it has stars!)
- rpastuszak 4y ago
  Hm, for me it was oh-my-zsh, no doubt about that, but the change of the default shell on Mac was a pleasant surprise.
- kergonath 4y ago
  It was cool before becoming the default shell on macOS. I’ve been installing it from MacPorts and putting oh-my-zsh for years before it became the default.
- shrikant 4y ago
  I use ZSH only because it's default on my work Macbook, and my workplace's IT provisioning has a bunch of stuff that assumes a default ZSH in place. However, on my personal machine and at my previous employer, I used a reasonably tweaked oh-my-bash setup and I can't say that I notice much of a daily quality-of-life difference.

yboris 4y ago

+1 on oh-my-zsh I recommend Oh My Zsh with the zsh-autosuggestions [1] and zsh-syntax-highlighting [2] plugins. [1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions [2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting And my custom theme ;) https://github.com/whyboris/dotfiles/blob/main/yboris.zsh-theme https://github.com/whyboris/dotfiles/blob/main/yboris.zsh-th...

xwowsersx 4y ago
hmm, I just added zsh-syntax-highlighting to my plugins and sourced .zshrc and got "[oh-my-zsh] plugin 'zsh-syntax-highlighting' not found" Any ideas?
- yboris 4y ago
  Installation instructions for the plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/INSTALL.md#oh-my-zsh https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/ma... Looks like you need to clone the .git repository into your oh-my-zsh directory
  - xwowsersx 4y ago
    Thanks
anamexis 4y ago
I've recently moved over to slimzsh. As the name implies, it is lightweight and fast, but provides all of the modern niceties and defaults that I want. https://github.com/changs/slimzsh https://github.com/changs/slimzsh
hellohowareu 4y ago
fancy, with useful plugins. my top pick: zsh + oh-my-zsh + powerline10k on iterm2 alternative, less fancy, but nice if you want something simple yet decent: zim on alacritty

bombcar 4y ago

I really wonder how much of the zsh "love" comes from two things: 1. it being the new Mac default 2. oh-my-zsh And if the second is important, I wonder how many people have never tried anything similar for bash, such as https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash (never used it myself, but it has stars!)

rpastuszak 4y ago
Hm, for me it was oh-my-zsh, no doubt about that, but the change of the default shell on Mac was a pleasant surprise.
kergonath 4y ago
It was cool before becoming the default shell on macOS. I’ve been installing it from MacPorts and putting oh-my-zsh for years before it became the default.
shrikant 4y ago
I use ZSH only because it's default on my work Macbook, and my workplace's IT provisioning has a bunch of stuff that assumes a default ZSH in place. However, on my personal machine and at my previous employer, I used a reasonably tweaked oh-my-bash setup and I can't say that I notice much of a daily quality-of-life difference.