How To Make Your macOS Terminal Amazing From Scratch

#macos #softwareengineer #programmer #coder #terminal
How To Make Your macOS Terminal Stunning
.zshrc: github.com/selikapro/kantan-z...
colorls: github.com/athityakumar/colorls
homebrew: brew.sh/
fonts: www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
fonts github: github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fon...
color schemes: iterm2colorschemes.com/
oh my zsh themes: github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wi...
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[@nielslostaunau5104]

hey buddy thank you so much i was struggling for days trying to make this work but i finally succeeded. keep up with the tutorial i appreciated

[@kantancoding]

No problem, I’m happy to help 😊

[@ToGoMania19]

Thanks! Handy info!

[@kantancoding]

Thank you!😊

[@themarksmith]

Cheers man, this is useful!

[@kantancoding]

Enjoy! 🚀

[@Korvys777]

wow! best video in 2023! Thanks bro!

[@kantancoding]

Thanks bro! I'm glad you liked it :)

[@machismotv]

great video bro!

[@kantancoding]

Thanks brother!

[@senwhich]

Hi Georgio, thank you for presenting all in clear way, was easy to follow and understand. Would like to ask what you can advise to make the terminal response faster. Now after I run $ source ~/.zshrc or $ cd the response in more than 15 seconds, during time of delay when I press arrows ^[[D^[[A^[[B^[[C are are typed.

[@kantancoding]

Hmm, I wonder if you have any security software installed on your system that might be causing this. Are we talking about a work or personal computer?

[@johnatilanoii1075]

Hi Georgio, great video! Thank you. How do I change the cursor to a box instead of a line. Changing in iTerm2 has no effect. I think the code in .zshrc may be forcing the cursor into a line, just not sure how to change. Thanks in advance for your help.

[@kantancoding]

Hello, thank you! the cursor isn’t set by the shell(zsh), it’s configured in the terminal. So if you are using iTerm2, go to Preferences -> Profiles -> Text and you’ll see the cursor setting at the top. Since you said changing it on iTerm2 has no effect, I’m guessing you are setting it for one profile but using a different profile.

[@codedevrob9853]

Hi, what software are you using for virtual machine on macos? Do you have a video on setting that up?

[@kantancoding]

I don’t have a video on it as it’s really simple. The software is called UTM I believe.

[@victor.gommtz]

Beautiful

[@excxmoody]

Following along and have run into an issue when you're explaining colorls. When doing so I am told I have to install development tools first along with checking the mkmf.log file. Any advice? Have a fairly basic understanding using Terminal and wanted to make changes following along to learn a little more, plus it's nice not having to use a mouse as often.

[@kantancoding]

Did you complete the part of the video where I explain how to install dev tools on Mac?

[@excxmoody]

@@kantancoding Are you referring to 3:00 of your video? If my memory is correct I do believe I saw that icon that's at that part of the video pop up next to your iterms2 icon, which I think I did exactly like you had. Unsure if this might help but a while ago when I started learning how to use the terminal had gotten iterms2 + zsh, however not entirely sure had done so correctly leading to the current situation, think I had but that was some time ago. Is it possible to start over from scratch? assuming there is no solution although there likely is one. Happy Holidays!

[@kantancoding]

@@excxmoody Hey! Happy holidays to you too. And if your issue is that you don't have the dev tools installed, or if you aren't sure if you have it installed or not, your next step is to confirm whether or not you have them installed. I didn't read through this thread yet but it looks promising: stackoverflow.com/questions/15371925/how-to-check-if-xcode-command-line-tools-are-installed Let me know if you get stuck and I'll try to help. Also, it might be easier for me to help if you join my discord and post in the "general" channel. Easier to go back and forth there. Discord link is in my channel description. Also, welcome to the shell world! You will never be able to live without it once you become good at it :)

[@excxmoody]

@@kantancoding Perhaps this may help, will also reach out on Discord. May sound like a silly question but do I have to have xcode installed in general? Curious seeing a while back had liked vscode and atom better, easier on the eyes if I remember correctly.

[@rdprince8864]

Thank you so much. But how did you delete the file content in 9:13

[@kantancoding]

I’m using vim.. so the vim commands are: - press gg to go to the top of the file - press shift v to go is visual - press shift g to jump to the bottom of the file - press d to delete

[@wismachaerul3325]

Nice content

[@kantancoding]

Thank you 😊

[@aarons.3185]

I am getting an error when I enter "source ~/.zshrc" saying "/Users/myname/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/docker/docker.plugin/zsh:57: command not found: docker" do you know how I can fix this???

[@kantancoding]

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[@iangroover1188]

hey brotha, so i was following along untill i got to removing those last 2 errors, the syntax highlighting and the zsh-autosuggestions. i got the few other previous erros to go away while following along, though i kinda had to open up the zshrc file in a text edit app for these things for some reason ha, but after the brew install the last 2 still come up as error. for ex. /Users/ian/.zshrc:source:170: no such file or directory: /opt/homebrew/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh. and then the same thing again except now its zsh-autosuggestions but it. says 171 instead of 170. any idea on how i can fix these? im a noob at all this and cnt seem to find anythng online i would apprecite it!

[@kantancoding]

So that's the error you see from brew install?

[@iangroover1188]

hey thanks for replying. this error wasnt from installing homebrew actually. it started exactly how it did when. it did for you in this video. so basically, the error appeared after deleting everything in the .zshrc and then copying the kantan-zsh repository that you made back into the .zshrc file i just deleted everything in. then i made the changes of the file, changing it from your user name to my user name, then ran the source/.~zshrc to refresh and then this is where the error appered. same time as it did for you in this video at 11:38 (min:sec) i then followed the steps you provide to fix the errors one by one, and it worked for the other errors, but the 2 that i listed in my original comment remain and couldnt fix those for some reason @@kantancoding

[@kantancoding]

@@iangroover1188 No problem. honestly, it's really difficult for me to see what your issue is by just reading this. Please join the discord and upload a screen recording of your issue to the general channel 😄

[@dB-cz8yd]

@@iangroover1188 The path to the 2 scripts at the end of the configuration file is incorrect. Let me know if you still have the error message and I'll give you the full path(s)

[@jimmyjayB]

I got an error .zshrc:51: parse error near `)' could you kindly help

[@kantancoding]

There’s some error on line 51 of your .zshrc file. Go to that line and see if it’s the same as the video 👍

[@SonyAkpotorFineArt]

How did you delete everything in the vim .zshrc?

[@kantancoding]

I go into v mode and then jump to the bottom of the page. Then just hit x or d 👍

[@SudoTalon]

what do you mean by go into v mode? have been here for 2hrs@@kantancoding

[@asyanto72]

Same question

[@muhammadinamulhaq4219]

The fact he said *Git started*

[@kantancoding]

😂

[@bhuvansa8992]

Can you help me with this annoying error /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/universal-darwin22/rbconfig.rb:21: warning: Insecure world writable dir /Users/bhuvansa/Desktop/Projects in PATH, mode 040777

[@bhuvansa8992]

It seem to appear while using ls command

[@kantancoding]

Sure, can you tell me what the left most column says for Desktop when you do 'ls -lah /Users/bhuvansa/` AND what the left most column says for Projects when you do `ls -lah /Users/bhuvansa/Desktop/`? It should have something that looks similar to this rwxr-xr-x but the characters might be different.

[@bhuvansa8992]

@@kantancoding Thanks Man I fixed it finally

[@kantancoding]

@@bhuvansa8992 Nice! Happy to hear that