[TheMaster]

That is so cool!

Just a question, (being a sort of noob at how command lines works), but would I need to install this on a machine im SSHing into to use it, or only on the connecting machine?

And would it work on windows (putty)? I suspect not...or could I install it on my server, and get this functionality after SSHing in with Putty?

Anyway, those features look absolutely amazing...and all this time I thought Bash was a programming language, and that the "shell" was the only one there was....and here you go!

[callumacrae]

Looks awesome, I'll try it out later :-)

Bash supports vim emulation natively, but it isn't very good.

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The SHA of the HEAD of the git repo I'm in, the branch I'm in, and a little indicator that tells me if I have uncommitted changes.

That's all possible in bash, I believe lemon did it a while back and shared his script on IRC (dunno which network, though).

TheMaster, on 30 April 2012 - 08:01 AM, said:

That is so cool!

Just a question, (being a sort of noob at how command lines works), but would I need to install this on a machine im SSHing into to use it, or only on the connecting machine?

And would it work on windows (putty)? I suspect not...or could I install it on my server, and get this functionality after SSHing in with Putty?

Anyway, those features look absolutely amazing...and all this time I thought Bash was a programming language, and that the "shell" was the only one there was....and here you go!

ssh -t you@host zsh

-t for TTY, or it won't work.

[Kyek]

TheMaster, on 30 April 2012 - 08:01 AM, said:

would I need to install this on a machine im SSHing into to use it, or only on the connecting machine?And would it work on windows (putty)? I suspect not...or could I install it on my server, and get this functionality after SSHing in with Putty?

You use the prompt of whatever computer you connect to. So if you SSH to a machine where your shell is Bash, you get your bash prompt. You'd have to change your shell to zsh (which is included with most distibutions of *nix-like OSes -- you don't NEED oh-my-zsh to use zsh, it's just nice) on any machine you want to SSH to in order to have the prompt on that machine. Same goes for PuTTY, as it's just an SSH client. You'd need zsh set as your shell wherever you connect.

callumacrae, on 30 April 2012 - 08:05 AM, said:

That's all possible in bash, I believe lemon did it a while back and shared his script on IRC (dunno which network, though).ssh -t you@host zsh-t for TTY, or it won't work.

Yep, (almost) everything I put up there can be hacked together in one form or another on Bash. The difference is that, between zsh and oh-my-zsh, many of those features are already built-in, or cleaner/faster than what you can get out of Bash. It's not until you get into things like scripted conditionals and file globbing that you find the features that Bash either doesn't have or has an incredibly poor implementation of.

[Cyril]

Holy crap this looks awesome Started (well, already a bit into it) theming my own;



Really like the easy git integration

[NeilHanlon]

So, I'm probably just an idiot and all high on painkillers because I burned myself... But how do I install ZSH, or do I need to? I understand that Oh My ZSH is a plugin framework thing... but how do I start using ZSH - I'm speaking specifically with PuTTY on windows. I can change my TTY settings - but I'm not sure what to add.



EDIT: Fixed issue. For some reason DNS is still fucked up.

[Cyril]

NeilHanlon, on 30 April 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:

So, I'm probably just an idiot and all high on painkillers because I burned myself... But how do I install ZSH, or do I need to? I understand that Oh My ZSH is a plugin framework thing... but how do I start using ZSH - I'm speaking specifically with PuTTY on windows. I can change my TTY settings - but I'm not sure what to add.



EDIT: Fixed issue. For some reason DNS is still fucked up.

Kyek, on 30 April 2012 - 07:52 AM, said:

So here's what up. This dude decided it would be cool to build a theme and plugin framework around ZSH. He calls it Oh My ZSH. It's awesome, and will make your zsh life so much easier. Install it by running this at your Bash prompt:

curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh

[TheEmpty]

Saw this awhile back in: http://railscasts.co...s/308-oh-my-zsh

I don't have it installed yet because it makes me feel special when it starts singing:

[callumacrae]

NeilHanlon, on 30 April 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:

because I burned myself...

Seriously though, hope you recover quickly :-)

[Kyek]

NeilHanlon, on 30 April 2012 - 03:47 PM, said:

So, I'm probably just an idiot and all high on painkillers because I burned myself... But how do I install ZSH, or do I need to? I understand that Oh My ZSH is a plugin framework thing... but how do I start using ZSH - I'm speaking specifically with PuTTY on windows. I can change my TTY settings - but I'm not sure what to add.



EDIT: Fixed issue. For some reason DNS is still fucked up.

This isn't a client-side thing. Whenever you connect to an SSH server and you see the prompt come up, it's not actually PuTTY that's supplying that prompt -- it's the server itself. So if you want ZSH, then you'd have to switch your user account on the server over to it (which requires admin rights) and optionally install oh-my-zsh if you want the bells and whistles (which you can do without admin rights). SO in short, it's something you do after you've connected, on the command line. Not something in your SSH client's prefs

[NeilHanlon]

Kyek, on 30 April 2012 - 04:48 PM, said:

This isn't a client-side thing. Whenever you connect to an SSH server and you see the prompt come up, it's not actually PuTTY that's supplying that prompt -- it's the server itself. So if you want ZSH, then you'd have to switch your user account on the server over to it (which requires admin rights) and optionally install oh-my-zsh if you want the bells and whistles (which you can do without admin rights). SO in short, it's something you do after you've connected, on the command line. Not something in your SSH client's prefs

I don't see an option for ZSH...

[Daniel15]

I've been meaning to try zsh but haven't gotten around to installing or configuring it. I saw a blog post that convinced me: http://friedcpu.word...oull-ever-need/ . Just the typo correction is enough for me

[NeilHanlon]

Putty doesn't like themes, I guess...



Also, any chance I could steal your theme, Kyek?

[Daniel15]

Neil, try choosing UTF-8 in Window -> Translation in PuTTY.

[Quinn]

I wouldn't mind stealing that theme of yours, Kyek, as well.

[TheMaster]

Yeah, Kyek...I looked at the themes on GitHub and...well...not to be ungrateful or picky but....your theme looks better

Mind uploading it somewhere?

EDIT: I'm not sure if ZSH (and Oh-My-Zsh) is even working. I installed ZSH first (on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine), then tried to install Oh-My-Zsh. I received a few errors, which made me think that it wasn't really working. Is there anything special that I need to do to get it to work? I ran all the commands as sudo, and I got some erros about PAM authentication, (but i'm root!! I dont need to be authenticated!!!).

[Kyek]

Here's mine, with the caveat that the code's pretty dirty (I blame the theme I was working from xD) and I'm working on making it modular so that you can add/remove/reorder the elements in each line. Not sure if I'll ever finish it, but hey, it's on my computer xD

~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/frosted.zsh-theme

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# Frosted: ZSH Theme based on 'gnzh'

# load some modules
autoload -U colors zsh/terminfo # Used in the colour alias below
colors
setopt prompt_subst

# make some aliases for the colours: (coud use normal escap.seq's too)
for color in RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE; do
  eval PR_$color='%{$fg[${(L)color}]%}'
done
eval PR_NO_COLOR="%{$terminfo[sgr0]%}"
eval PR_BOLD="%{$terminfo[bold]%}"

# Check the UID
if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; then # root
  eval PR_USER='%{$PR_RED$PR_BOLD%}%n%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}'
  local PR_PROMPT='%{$PR_RED$PR_BOLD%}➤%{$PR_NO_COLOR%} '
else # normal user
  eval PR_USER='%{$PR_GREEN$PR_BOLD%}%n%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}'
  local PR_PROMPT='%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}➤ '
fi

# Check if we are on SSH or not
if [[ -n "$SSH_CLIENT"  ||  -n "$SSH2_CLIENT" ]]; then 
  eval PR_HOST='%{$PR_YELLOW$PR_BOLD%}%M%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}' #SSH
else
  eval PR_HOST='%{$PR_GREEN$PR_BOLD%}%M%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}' # no SSH
fi

local return_code="%(?..%{$PR_RED%}%? ↵%{$PR_NO_COLOR%})"

local user_host='${PR_USER}%{$PR_BLUE%}@${PR_HOST}'
local current_dir='%{$PR_BOLD$PR_BLUE%}${PWD/#$HOME/~}%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}'

# Construct the git prompt
function git_prompt {
	gp="$(git_prompt_short_sha)$(git_prompt_info)$(git_prompt_ahead)"
	if [ "x$gp" != "x" ]; then
		echo "${GIT_PRE}${gp}${GIT_POST}"
	else
		echo ""
	fi
}
local git_branch='$(git_prompt)%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}'

# The time
local p_time="%{$PR_BOLD%}%D{%L:%M%p}%{$PR_NO_COLOR%}"

PROMPT="
%{$PR_BLUE%}╭─<${user_host}%{$PR_BLUE%}>-<${current_dir}%{$PR_BLUE%}>-${git_branch}%{$PR_BLUE%}<${p_time}%{$PR_BLUE%}>-◇
%{$PR_BLUE%}╰─$PR_PROMPT"
RPS1="${return_code}"

local GIT_PRE="<%{$PR_BOLD%}"
local GIT_POST="%{$PR_NO_COLOR$PR_BLUE%}>-"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="%{$PR_NO_COLOR$PR_BLUE%}∙%{$PR_BOLD%}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX=""
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$PR_NO_COLOR$PR_BLUE%}∙%{$PR_RED%}✗"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="%{$PR_NO_COLOR$PR_BLUE%}∙%{$PR_GREEN%}✔"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_AHEAD="%{$PR_YELLOW$PR_BOLD%}⚡"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SHA_BEFORE=""
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SHA_AFTER=""

Terminal settings recommendations:

• Font: Menlo Regular, 12pt
  
• Do NOT print bold text in a bold font
  
• Print bold text in bright colors
  
• Black background (semitransparent if you prefer)
  
• For the color scheme, I use "Tango Dark" that comes with iTerm2. But this is personal preference.

TheMaster, on 01 May 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

EDIT: I'm not sure if ZSH (and Oh-My-Zsh) is even working. I installed ZSH first (on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine), then tried to install Oh-My-Zsh. I received a few errors, which made me think that it wasn't really working. Is there anything special that I need to do to get it to work? I ran all the commands as sudo, and I got some erros about PAM authentication, (but i'm root!! I dont need to be authenticated!!!).

What errors did you get? Also, that install script should NOT be run as root -- just as a local user. It may ask for your password in order to change your login shell.

The alternative to the install script would be just manually setting your login shell to zsh, then cloning the oh-my-zsh repository into

~/.oh-my-zsh

. Then you just need to paste this (note -- I have this slightly customized for me, and it uses the theme I posted above, so feel free to edit) into a new file at

~/.zshrc

~/.zshrc

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# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="frosted"

# Example aliases
# alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc"
# alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh"

# Set to this to use case-sensitive completion
# CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Comment this out to disable weekly auto-update checks
# DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
# DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable autosetting terminal title.
# DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want red dots to be displayed while waiting for completion
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Custom plugins may be added to ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
plugins=(git npm node github brew nyan vi-mode)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# Customize to your needs...
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

[@Tom]

I may just be thinking poorly but zsh ships with osx correct? You don't need to install anything. Then as a follow up do I need to update my zsh profile to mimic my bash profile?

[NeilHanlon]

TheMaster - you need to change the user's shell to /bin/zsh

[Kyek]

itom07, on 01 May 2012 - 11:17 AM, said:

I may just be thinking poorly but zsh ships with osx correct? You don't need to install anything. Then as a follow up do I need to update my zsh profile to mimic my bash profile?

Right -- zsh is already there on macs. If you allow the oh-my-zsh installer to change your shell for you, it will also migrate some of your .profile additions over. Just check .zshrc after the install and move anything else over that didn't make it