Basic Zsh install and setup

• Basics
• Prompt themes
• $PATH
• Make Zsh default shell

Basics ↓

sudo apt install zsh
zsh # select 2 to populate some basic configuration

Edit .zshrc, add

# mine
source $HOME/.bash_aliases

and change prompt theme to

prompt walters

To be continued …

Prompt themes ↓

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/zsh#Prompt_themes

prompt -l
prompt walters
prompt -p

Built in prompts are stored in

/usr/share/zsh/functions/Prompts

It is unclear on how to do user prompt properly, but one can probably paste this to .zshrc (to get walters without the silly underline)

if [[ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]]; then
    PROMPT='%B%(?..[%?] )%b%n@%m> '
    RPROMPT="%F{${1:-green}}%~%f"
else
    PROMPT="%(?..[%?] )%n@%m:%~> "
fi
  prompt_opts=(cr percent)

And remove any ‘prompt walters’ definitions from above.

$PATH ↓

Also somewhere in .zshrc

# append
path+=$HOME/bin

Make Zsh default shell ↓

 chsh -s $(which zsh)