• Install (if necessary) Oh-My-Zsh and the two plugins we use, enabling autosuggestions and syntax highlighting
• Export the PATH variable, exposing the binaries we installed to the command line
• Configure fzf
• Vimify everything
  • Vi mode to navigate command line
    • v in escape mode launches Vim with current string
  • Use Vim for manpages
• Load all aliases and functions
• Launch tmux on start
  • If no session present, starts new session with name main
  • If session present, starts new session with name in format alt[n_sessions - 1] (e.g. alt0, alt1, etc.)

• pbcopy — Copy to clipboard (works across macOS, Linux, WSL)
• pbpaste — Paste from clipboard (works across macOS, Linux, WSL)
• open — Open a file/directory (works across macOS, Linux, WSL)
• ls — Use exa instead of ls
• tree — Use exa with -T instead of tree
• o — Open current directory in system file explorer
• pfkill — Like pkill, but leveraging fzf
• ds — change directory into ~/Desktop
• dc — change directory into ~/Documents
• dl — change directory into ~/Downloads
• tmcp — Copy tmux buffer into system clipboard
• expandurl — Follow URL redirects, and return final location
• hidedesktop — Hide all files on desktop (macOS only)
• showdesktop — Show all files on desktop (macOS only)
• afk — Lock the display (macOS only)

• ip — Fetch a machine's local and public IP addresses
• mkd — Make a directory and cd into it (works recursively)
• dataurl — Make a dataurl for a given file
• cdf — Change directory to match the current one in Finder

There’s not much to my default Zsh theme — just a simple left prompt showing the current path and a right prompt showing git status if available. For the left prompt, if the user is root, the leader, >, changes from bold white to bold red.

The below image additionally shows off the usefullness of Zsh syntax highlighting.