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Iterm2 color schemes6/20/2023 ![]() Have a great iTerm theme? Send it to me via a Pull Request! To export your theme settings: itermcolors file(s) of the schemes you'd like to use Click on Color Presets and choose a color scheme.itermcolors file(s) of the scheme(s) you'd like to use There are 2 ways to install an iTerm theme (both go to the same configuration location): Screenshots below and in the screenshots directory. To empower your terminal with all the above, follow this excellent guide by Jilles Soeters: Baddassify your terminal and come back for Steps 2 and 3.This is a set of color schemes for iTerm (aka iTerm2). Bonus powers: syntax highlighting (shows you whether your command will run before you run it) and z terminal navigation (makes navigating the terminal much faster by estimating the folder you want to switch to using “frecency”).Install “ oh-my-zsh,” which will super-charge your zsh shell (that is, it is a community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration). ![]() ![]() It takes your keyboard commands in terminal and gives them to the computer to perform.) Changing shell from “bash” to the more flexible and powerful “zsh” (The shell is like the software your terminal application is running.Installing iTerm: a better version of Terminal (check out the awesome features from splitting panes to intelligent search terminal searching by clicking here).Power-level your Terminal Step 1 of 3: Badassify your terminalįirst things first, we need to empower your terminal to do awesome things, including: After it, your terminal code won’t just look like the Matrix, it will do all-powerful things. This is for the over-achievers, the crazy ones, the truth-seekers. You should now have a niiiccceee Matrix-esque terminal, like the below: Pretty sweet for almost no effort Terminal, Preferences, Profiles -> Homebrew -> Click “Default” in the bottom left Terminal, Preferences, General -> New window with profile -> Homebrew Open Terminal preferences: change profile to “Homebrew,” including on startup Open Terminal via the Spotlight search function That red pill looks absolutely delicious, I bet it has a ton of Omega-3s The Blue Pillįor the blue pill, here are some quick and easy steps to have your terminal make Neo proud: The red pill is more exciting, enthralling, and has a vastly higher ceiling - for which we will need to leverage far more of your precious neurons. The blue pill is easy and you will be done lickety-split in less than three minutes. Now that is cleared up, how do we make Terminal awesome? The Blue Pill or the Red Pill…Īs I am sure you expected in a blog post of loose and fast Matrix references, there are two choices. These can be simple things like creating a new folder by typing “mkdir ”, up to all-powerful things like forcing your computer to make you a sandwich: Disclaimer: your computer may not make you a sandwich. With Terminal (a normal application that comes with your Mac), you command your computer to do things instead using the power of typing on your keyboard. Normally you clickity-click around your screen with a keyboard and mouse to do fun things on your computer. For the uninitiated: what is Terminal on Mac? I myself am at the beginning of my coding journey, but that does not mean we cannot accomplish great and important things (like avoiding actually learning how to code by working out how to make every damn thing look like the Matrix, and maybe accidentally learning something about code in the process). My promise to you, dear reader, is that I will write in plain English as best I can to take you on this glorious fact-finding mission. Now that I have your attention, let’s learn together. Still looks badass, and it’s now usable and able to run a load of extra useful features that will save you time and make you feel like a next-level coder (whether or not you stick to the Matrix color scheme). By Marcus Gardiner How to seriously upgrade your Mac terminal (and even give it a Matrix theme) A Blue Pill, a Red Pill and 3 Steps to Terminal Bliss Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Does your Mac Terminal currently look like this -> (in other words, it kinda sucks)? Note to self: this does not make you feel like an all-powerful coding prodigy Do you want it to look like this -> (or, ya know, badass)? GIFs courtesy of Giphy images Or more realistically -> (and actually more awesome)…like this? The colour scheme is only one part of the awesomeness
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