8th June 2023

My Command Line setup

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.

Extensions: antigen, direnv, just

Antigen 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

Antigen extensions: zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-notify

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.

Fonts: MonoLisa and FiraCode Nerd Font

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)"

# antigen
source /opt/homebrew/share/antigen/antigen.zsh
antigen bundle zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
antigen bundle zsh-users/zsh-completions
antigen bundle marzocchi/zsh-notify
antigen apply

# 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

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