I have finally decided to give zsh a thorough review. I’ve been hearing about it for a couple years in and around tech user group meetings, technical conferences and from people I follow on Twitter. I guess the proverbial “straw that…” got me to take a hard look was when I moved from Cygwin to Babun (which you should do right now). This was how I expressed my opinion of Babun on Twitter. I obviously am liking it. 😉
Christmas came early. I stumbled across Babun, a great replacement for Cygwin! New favorite windows shell! http://t.co/G4vLHDAZoR
— Erik Weibust (@erikweibust) May 17, 2014
Anyhow, this is a post about Zsh, and I have some questions I’m hoping the Zsh users out there can help clear up.
- I’m assuming everyone is using Oh-My-Zsh?
- While using Oh-My-Zsh, because I’m also using it while test-driving zsh, where do I make edits to shell defaults? I would assume I can just make edits to .zshrc? I’d like to add stuff like (set -o vi, alias vi=vim, etc.). Nothing to advanced, just some minor edits I need before I can even get comfortable with the shell.
- Since I just mentioned an alias, where is the idiomatic place to add my personal aliases? I saw a handful added in the .zshrc as examples, I normally source a personal alias file from my .bashrc, is that common with zsh?
- Most of my questions come from when I change/customize something in .oh-my-zsh/ over the zsh config files? I’m struggling with when I add to a oh-my-zsh theme over creating my own, or just making the changes in .zshrc
Thanks in advance for any help…
Did you get some answers to the above questions about customizing the zsh shell environment? .resource_file?
Bill,
Sorry I missed your comment… Anyhow, no response. 🙁 I am happy zsh and what I listed above. No problems yet. If I get some enlightening info I’ll pass it along.