pwsh

Guide + Config files for setting up pwsh.

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Powershell setup with modules like oh-my-posh, scoop, z, posh-git, fzf (fuzzy-finder), terminal icons

Neovim setup with modules like packer, tree-sitter, lsp

Lets Get Started With PWSH

Windows has a powershell which is built on .NET Framework which is only compatible on windows and doesnt have many features. So first install a modern powershell from Microsoft Store.

Get this one.

Open powershell and click on the arrow button on the taskbar > Click on Settings

Change the options to this

Go to Defaults > Appearance and Enable acrylic material, And bring down the opacity for transparent powershell background. (Now you are one of the modern genz cool people)

In order for extra features with fonts, Install a patched font from Nerdfont.

Then again go and change the font in Defaults > Appearance > Fonts to Your patched font. (My choice was Hack). Read the docs to install the nerdfont on windows, (Simply you download a zip for a font, extract it, click on the .otf or .ttf file and press on Install to install it to your system).

Installing scoop

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
irm get.scoop.sh | iex

Now scoop has been installed

Install all modules from your terminal now!

Installing neovim

scoop install neovim

You can install other useful modules like curl, sudo, fzf using same logic.

Setting up oh-my-posh and posh-git

Warning

Install-Module -Name oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser -Force 

Has been deprecated

Use scoop to install oh-my-posh (You can use winget also. Your freedom of choice)

scoop install https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/oh-my-posh.json

oh-my-posh has been installed!

Similarly download posh-git using this command:

PowerShellGet\Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Changing theme of your powershell

you can find out where your themes are stored by doing

echo "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH"

Lets make a config file that we will pass to the powershell profile so that it can load this config file before loading.

mkdir .config/powershell
nvim .config/powershell/user_profile.ps1

Note .ps1 is used to write powershell commands.

Note I have chosen amro.omp.json but you can choose any theme given in here

While you are at it, you can also make aliases for a bunch of command, that will make it easy for you to use

And utility functions for similar reasons

Adding this config file to the powershell profile

Execute following command to show where the profile of powershell is stored

echo "$PROFILE"

Open profile in nvim by using the following command

nvim $PROFILE

And add the following Lines.

Now when you restart your shell, your config file will be loaded.

Installing Terminal Icons

Execute this in powershell

Install-Module -Name Terminal-Icons -Repository PSGallery

And add this line to config file to enable Terminal Icons

Result of Terminal Icons.

Installing Fzf and PSFzf for auto completions of paths or commands in pwsh

Check fzf Github Repo to see whats happening, we will use PZfzf Wrapper to extend the extensibility of it to output auto paths and commands on pwsh

Install fzf

scoop install fzf

Install PZfzf

Install-Module -Name PSFzf -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Now go to your powershell config in ~/.config/powershell/user_profile.ps1 that you set up and add the following commands