Terminal & Shell

I want to be a person that sits on the command line, but I’m just not.

For the rare times that I do, I use the Ghostty terminal application with Mac’s default zsh shell.

Start by getting Homebrew, a package manager (ie, an app store you access from the terminal). This lets you install apps and utilities by typing a simple command brew install fzf instead of hunting for downloads online.

My preferred configurations include:

• ghostty config: I use the Catppuccin Mocha theme
• prompt config: I use Starship,
• zsh config:
  • zsh-autosuggestions
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • eza, a modern ls
  • bat, a modern cat
    
  • ripgrep, a modern grep
  • fzf, the ubiquitous fuzzy finder
  • yazi, the visual file manager
  • along with vim keybindings and a shortlist of aliases

It’s unremarkable. The config file can be found on my github here.