Level up Mac Terminal Like Pro

Make your terminal talk of the town with super convenient autocomplete options and elevated user experience with tons of plugins and themes.

If You are a frequent terminal user this post would change the way you used to think about terminal on mac and would make it a breeze as iOS Developer.

Installing OhMyZsh on Mac: OhMyZsh is a framework for Zsh, the Z shell.

sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

You can also install via homebrew

brew install zsh

Plugins: Oh My Zsh comes with lots of plugins for you to take advantage of.

Enabling iOS Specific Plugins:

plugins=(git
  macos
  xcode
  swiftpm
  pod)

Auto complete when you type command:

You’ll find the .zshrc file in your $HOME directory. Open it with your favorite text editor and you'll see a spot to list all the plugins you want to load.

oh my zsh Directory

Git Clone the zsh-autocomplete plugin in the OhMyZsh plugin folder.

sudo git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

zsh-autocomplete installation

Once that is done, add the plugin in the ~/.zshrc file's plugin list.

plugins=(git
  macos
  xcode
  swiftpm
  pod
  zsh-autosuggestions)

Git Autosuggestions

Cocoapods Autosuggestions

Installing Themes:

robbyrussell is the default theme for ohmyzsh. Once you find a theme that you’d like to use, you will need to edit the ~/.zshrc file.You’ll see an environment variable (all caps) in there that looks like:

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

Resources

• https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
• https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
• https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes

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