howto_setup_terminal_for_new_machine.md

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Setup a zsh terminal in a new machine

WARNING: this HOWTO has some personal preferences on how to setup a zsh terminal in a Linux machine. Most choices can be modified, removed or added at will. Here I will present a base from which to setup the terminal

The idea is to have a .sh to setup the following:

• zsh with some additional options.

Programs to add:

• zoxide
• zfz
• micromamba (uv in the future?)

You can find the setup file in this github repo [dotfiles]

zsh

Options

The following options can be set in the .zshrc file when following the setopt option

• correct: Try to correct the spelling of commands
• extendedglob: Extended globbing. Allows using regular expressions with *
• nocaseglob: case insensitive search
• appendhistory: append history in .zsh_hystory instead opf overwrite it
• histignorespace: don't save commands that start with space

zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{[:lower:][:upper:]}={[:upper:][:lower:]}' # Case insensitive tab completion
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors "${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}"         # Colored completion (different colors for dirs/files/etc)
# Speed up completions
zstyle ':completion:*' accept-exact '*(N)'
zstyle ':completion:*' use-cache on
zstyle ':completion:*' cache-path ~/.zsh/cache

Alias

alias cp="cp -i"                                                # Confirm before overwriting something
alias df='df -h'                                                # Human-readable sizes
alias l='ls -Flrth'

Programs

References

• This github repo related to this beautiful video
• The manjaro zsh personalization which inspired a lot of option for zsh