My .zshrc setup

This is my personal .zsh directory setup which contains my .zshrc and any dependency scripts that my .zshrc uses most likely for its prompts.

Why use this .zsh setup.

This .zsh setup provides a number of very useful features which are outlined below and a number of wich can be seen in the screenshot below.

• Path in upper left prompt out of the way of normal command prompt
• Last command success/failure respective smiley/frown icon
• RVM prompt showing current ruby version and gemset if found
• Time since last git commit (less than 10 min - gray, greater than 10 min but less than 30 min yellow, greater than 30 mins - red). This is simply useful as reminder to try to keep your git commits small and logically chunked.
• The currently checkout branch when you are in a git repository.
• SHA1 of the HEAD when you are in a Git repository.
• Local git repository dirty bit to tell you what your local un-staged changes.
• Git command line tab completion including support for most git command arguments and switches as well.
• Zsh is almost 100% compatible with Bash so all your Bash knowledge is still valuable.

To see how the various features listed above appear when using this .zsh setup please checkout the screenshot below.

Set shell to /bin/zsh

If you are on a Mac OS X box and want to use this .zsh setup you have to first switch your account to use /bin/zsh. This is done by following the steps presented below.

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Select Users & Groups under the System section
3. Click the Lock icon in the lower left corner to unlock the preferences
4. Enter your password to actually unlock the preferences
5. Right click on your user in the list on the left and select Advanced Options
6. From the Login shell: drop-down select /bin/zsh
7. Click the OK button
8. Close System Preferencs

At this point if you create a new Terminal instance it should open up with /bin/zsh as your shell. You can verify this by running the following command and verifying that the output is /bin/zsh.

echo $SHELL

Once you have verified you are running /bin/zsh as your shell you can install this .zsh setup using the instructions below.

Installation

To install this .zsh setup simply run the following commands.

cd ~/
git clone git@github.com:drewdeponte/dotzsh.git ~/.zsh
ln -s ~/.zsh/zshrc .zshrc
ln -s ~/.zsh/zshenv .zshenv
ln -s ~/.zsh/zprofile .zprofile

Update

To get the latest version of this setup at any time simply run the following commands.

cd ~/.zsh
git pull --ff-only

Thats it! Assuming you didn't have any local commits that prevent it from being fast-forwarded when pulled in. If you do happen to have local changes commited to the master branch locally, you should really create a new topic branch pointing to them and reset --hard your local master back to the official origins remote master.

Credit

I must give credit where credit is due. I have taken pieces of various peoples .zsh setups over the years to build this one. The primary two that I can think of are the PeepCode - My Command Line Prompt blog post, and stuff I have seen Gary Bernhardt of Destroy All Software do. My prompt looks very similar to the PeepCode layout though I have reworked the scripts largely and to allow for other features I provided and to make it generic and easily installed.