iTerm2 Customization

• Thy DaiCategories: mac

Feel free to contribute and share! And also reach out for any questions! I love expanding my range of laziness and also helping!(:

Theme

Oh don’t get me wrong. I do miss cmder a ton, but I also love how my terminal looks!

bullet-train

I’m using the iTerm theme Bullet Train.

In your .zshrc file, have the following somewhere around the top:

ZSH_THEME="bullet-train"


Computer Name

Shout out to: Veronica Mazur! She showed me how to customize my computer name in iTerm2!

I’m using a method from this StackOverflow. I want to be able to do it through my custom .zshrc instead of editing the theme itself. That way, if I transfer laptops, I don’t have to worry about editing the theme again, since my user preferences will override the exact values I need.

  1. Towards the bottom of my .zshrc file (before my SDKMAN_DIR, I create the following method called prompt_context(). 
     prompt_content() {
   if [[ "$USER" != "$DEFAULT_USER" || -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]]; then
     // Customization goes here
   fi
 }
  2. Veronica provided this guide on “Simple Prompt Escapes” to assist with those colors/emojis!

For example, mine looks like this:
thy-computer-name

prompt_context() {
  if [[ "$USER" != "$DEFAULT_USER" || -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]]; then
    prompt_segment black default "%{$fg_bold[cyan]%}ThyRex 🦖 %{$reset_color%}:%"
  fi
}


Aliases/Shortcuts

I’m a pretty lazy person. As in so lazy, my least favorite things to do are:

  1. Navigating to a directory in terminal for my hosts or a certain project.
  2. Honestly, typing git commit -a -m... or git push origin...
  3. Changing java versions.

So I created my own aliases in my ~/.zshrc file to further my laziness and modified my GitHub global config.

  • Thy’s lazy .zshrc (Downloadable file)
    • Rename to .zshrc to use
  • Thy’s lazy git config:

    git config –global –edit

      [alias]
      st = status
      ci = commit
      br = branch
      co = checkout
      gp = git push
      gpl = git pull
      g = git
      gc = git commit -a -m
      gco = git checkout
      gcl = git clone
      ga = git add
      gst = git status