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It's dangerous out there! here are some scripts to help you on your shell adventures.

This repo is a collection of personal preferences and configuration settings I've gathered and tweaked from around the web. Use them wisely and share.

Installation

This requires Homebrew and Homebrew Bundle in OS X. Use the following to install all deps:

xcode-select --install
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update && brew bundle

Helper functions

Util scripts and helper functions are linked under the $BREW_PATH/share/zsh/site-functions folder. These should be included in $fpath.

These include the syntax-highlighting and zsh-completions plugins and z so you can zump around.

NOTE: If completions aren't working for some reason, you might want to try rebuilding the cache:

rm -f ~/.zcompdump; compinit

You can compile the additional helpers via the following:

rm -f functions/*.zwc
for f (functions/*) zcompile $f

export BREW_PATH=$(brew --prefix)

ln -s "$HOME/github/zsh-history-substring-search/zsh-history-substring-search.zsh" $BREW_PATH/share/zsh/site-functions
ln -s "$HOME/github/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" $BREW_PATH/share/zsh/site-functions
ln -s "$HOME/github/z/z.sh" $BREW_PATH/share/zsh/site-functions/z.zsh

ln -s "$HOME/github/zsh-completions/src" $BREW_PATH/share/zsh/vendor-completions

Misc

Disable analytics, link autocompletions by default:

brew analytics off && \
brew completions link

Install public keys on host:

curl -sSL https://github.com/${USERNAME}.keys -o ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Console shortcuts

Some of these were originally available on Stefan Klumpp's Geek!mind and are a nice reminder of how to get things done quicker.

Ctrl+A - Move to the beginning of the line

Ctrl+E - Move to the end of the line

Alt+B - Move one word backward

ALT+F - Move one word forward

Ctrl+U - Clear the entire line

Ctrl+K - Clear the characters on the line after the current cursor position

Ctrl+W | Ctrl+Backspace - Delete the word in front of the cursor

Alt+D - Delete the word after the cursor

Ctrl+R - Search history (press again to find next match, pressing Right arrow allows you to edit current selected value)

Ctrl+S - Forward-search history Useful for those times when you went one Ctrl+R too far. Remember to issue a stty -ixon on your .bashrc or .zshrc configuration to unbind XON/XOFF occurrences

Ctrl+G - Quit search mode

Ctrl+_ - Undo last change

Ctrl+L - Clear screen

Ctrl+S - Stop output to screen

Ctrl+Q - Re-enable screen output

Ctrl+C - Terminate/kill current foreground process

Ctrl+Z - Suspend/stop current foreground process

See the bindkey builtin for a more extensive list.

Load order

.zshenv → [.zprofile if login] → [.zshrc if interactive] → [.zlogin if login] → [.zlogout sometimes]

zshenv is the entrypoint and always sourced.

zprofile is meant as an alternative to .zlogin; the two are not intended to be used together. Loads before zshrc instead of after and hands things off to zshrc.

Command shortcuts

Expression	Description
`!!`	Execute last command in history
`!*`	Access last command's params eg: vim !*
`!^`	Access last command's first param
`!$`	Access last command's last param
`!?abc?:*`	Params of last `abc` command
`!abc`	Execute last command in history beginning with abc
`!abc:p`	Print last command in history beginning with abc
`. ~/.zshrc`	Reload your zsh configuration