Set up my preferred terminal environment for linux (Ubuntu).

Archived and absorbed into https://github.com/jwblangley/dotfiles

Installation

Run the following command:

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwblangley/zsh-setup/master/setup.sh -O -)"

then log out and back in again. Open a new terminal session (now zsh) and run:

source "$HOME/.zshrc"

to do the following:

Install ZSH, if it is not already installed.
Make ZSH the default shell.
Install the micro text editor, if it is not already installed.
Download and run the oh-my-zsh installation script. See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh for more details.
Clone zsh-autosuggestions external plugin, if not already installed. See https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for more details.
Clone zsh-syntx-highlighting external plugin, if not already installed. See https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for more details.
Get my preferred .zshrc file.
Apply changes.

`micro` commands for continued customisation

Run micro, press Ctrl+E to enter a command and enter the following:

To set micro to use your standard shell colour scheme:

set colorscheme simple

To set micro to use spaces not tabs:

set tabstospaces true

To set micro to use a tab size of 2 spaces:

set tabsize 2

To set micro to use put a new line at the end of each file (as Unix standard):

set eofnewline true

Enable clipboard usage

micro uses xclip for clipboard management. Therefore to enable use of the clipboard, xclip must be installed. This can be done on debian-based systems with

sudo apt install xclip

Additional

My workflow also involves a number of other tools. The respective configuration repositories (similar to this) can be found below: