migos46 / shell_config

Beginners file in order to start configuring your shell profile

README

• This project is a starting point for new shell users in zsh, where usually the user interface is pretty boring compare with the default bash in ubuntu for instance.

Environment

• OS: macOS Monterrey
• Shell: /bin/zsh

Shell config file

The config file has comments that helps to understand the first basic steps to make the zsh shelllooks beautiful.
Currently, the config file just has the basics to change a bit the PS1 variable and color it.

• Color palette numbers can be found in this link

To make the variable PROMPT or the so called PS1 more understandeble, here it goes some tips:
Special sequences are used to wrapped a portion of the promptto have some features, i.e the sequence %B ... some commands ... %b will set more commandsto be BOLD. Be aware that the beginnning of a sequence starts with the capital letter and finishes with lowercase

Dynamic prompt elements

Element	Function	Comment
%n	Username that is logged in
%m	Hostname until the first dot "."	If a number is place after %m, it tells how many dots should be included
%M	Entire hostname
%d	Current directory	If a number is place after %, tells how much of the path will be displayed
%~	Current directory uses "~" if user is at home directory
%l	The TTY device using	i.e /dev/tty

• Color managment

Start	Stop	Effect
%B	%b	BOLD
%U	%u	Underline
%S	%s	==Highlighted==
%F	%f	Change foregroung color
%K	%k	Change backgorund color

There are a lot of turorials out there about customizing the PROMPT. Just browse for something like How to customize sheel prompt Also, the file has added what I found to colour the output of the grepcommand and, to enable autocompletion when using git.

Hope you enjoy it