Hey guys! Wanted to point out that you have to be using the zsh shell which runs by default in macOS Catalina or later for this tutorial to work. To check if you are using zsh, you can run “echo $0” in your terminal and the output will tell you the name of your shell. If you are looking for the “.zshrc” file within Finder, navigate to your home folder and press “Command” + “Shift” + “.” to see your hidden files. Also, if you already had a zshrc file setup with specific configurations and follow this tutorial and they get overwritten, Oh-My-Zsh will save your original zshrc file here: “~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh”. To undo everything you can use: “uninstall_oh_my_zsh”. Hope that helps!
never wrote a line of code, or used terminal in my life - until today. Complete beginning starting out, and this was really easy to follow. Thank you for the supporting website with step by step instructions and the commands to copy. Great work
Before I watched the video, I knew this would be something like "use iterm2, zsh, and powerlevel10k". The plugins in the end were awesome, will be using all three of those
Oh, one other thing: an alternative to the right arrow key for zsh command completion is the Emacs key equivalent CTRL-f. By my lights this is preferable to right arrow because you don't have to move your right hand out of position. (The fact that Apple preserved the ability to have Emacs CTRL- command line shortcuts in the terminal was one of the things that motivated my switch from Linux to OS X a couple decades ago!)
thanks for that comment! I remember reading it a few months ago and not really doing anything with it, but trying to hit the right arrow all the time was really annoying. I've been trying to search for a solution but I couldn't find one and then remembered your comment and just came back to this video. Also, this video is great btw, thanks Josean, I'm enjoying this iterm setup. I tried following your nvim video but ran into some issues with changes since you made the video and because I'm new to nvim it was kinda difficult to follow and understand everything in the setup. I may have also had an issue because I already tried to install the nvim kickstarter setup BEFORE trying to follow along with your video, and maybe there were some issues with compatibility of those two setups. Not sure if that's an issue but maybe explaining how to get to a base setup before following along with your nvim setup might be helpful. I don't' know a lot about that setup though so I could be wrong. Was just a bit frustrating.
"If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough" - Well sir you explained it as if it was 1+1=2, which goes to show that you know what you are talking about! Thanks a lot for this video, very useful and extremely easy to follow, understand and implement. 5 starts :)
A word of advice for anyone getting into ZSH: *avoid relying on oh-my-zsh in the long term.* The dirty secret is that everything it does is pretty trivial. All of the "plugins" are just scripts you could source yourself. It provides almost no value and just adds bloat to your configuration. Plus the plugins are one-size-fits-all solutions that usually just clutter everything up with crap you don't need or want. I don't fault anyone for picking it up as a "quick startup" solution, because it does let you get from zero to a superficially pretty terminal very quickly. But once you start customizing you'll probably find it just gets in the way.
I know this an older video and you have a more recent one, but I found this one first, I just finished it and it was so incredibly helpful! I am brand new and just started learning to code. You explained all of the steps brilliantly and my terminal is SO much easier to look at and work in. Thank you!
Your explanations are super clear. I followed it to the tee and it worked perfectly. I would suggest doing an explanation on the functions of each of the packages you've used for clarity for newbies like me.
Really appreciate the video. Been doing more shell work and wanted something a bit more comfortable than Terminal. This is great! Would love to hear if you've used others for any time what pros and cons are of others. This has really leveled up my experience though :)
This was the best video which taught everything about setting up iterm2 in just 1 video especially for a beginner like me small things like linking all the commands and everything it does for future reference was a great way. Thanks for this amazing tutorial, looking forward to watching your videos on setting up neovim and its workflows.
Hey! Really happy to hear that! Thank you for your feedback and I’m glad I could help! I’m currently working on the neovim video, taken me longer than I had planned but hoping to get it done very soon.
Ayy, I always wondered how they got their terminals to look that fancy! Never had the time to figure it out, until I came across this video! :D The auto-suggestion feature is really nice too!
Thank you for this, I do everything as you said in the video with a little tweak of customization on my own and it looks so much more pleasing to my eyes than ever. Thank for making my life less miserable looking at the terminal.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WASN'T MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO: - downloading oh my zsh completely clears your existing configuration in your .zshrc file and therefore breaks a lot of things (like conda). Make sure you backup/save a copy of your old .zshrc file before doing this. After completing all of the steps in the video, get your old .zshrc configuration and copy paste it to the top of the new .zshrc config file. Everything should work how it did before again. - After following the video, some of the features in iterm2 will "break" again. In order to fix it, make sure to redownload shell integration by going to help and typing install shell configuration. This should again bring everything back to normal. Other than that, great video and has really improved the terminal 10 fold.
Thanks alot Sir! Your videos help us alot to be more productive on the machine! Just watched the yabai and iterm2 video and setup my new mac, loving the feel all because of you!
I appreciate this video, as my iTerm setup was a bit stale, and this gave me ideas for getting it better customized to make like easier for me. Solid video.
I do a lot of work in a bash terminal, and your video will make the experience a lot better. Thank you for the supporting link with the command you used. I look forward to seeing your other videos! 👍
Awesome video. I always want to use colors to my terminal and this was very easy you made this al together. Thanks for explaining each step and providing us a documented steps as well. 👍
I prefer Fish Shell over zsh. Most of what OhMyZsh configures with plugins, are the out of box defaults with Fish. OhMyZsh can slow zsh down quite a bit if you run too many plugins. The only downside to Fish is that it is not POSIX compliant. So I'll spin up zsh for those times when I have to run a sh / bash script for an installer, etc. Scripting in Fish is quite nice and is fine for personal scripts. On some systems, I keep the default zsh but run Fish with .zlogin so I can exit Fish and return to Zsh when necessary. But default to using Fish for day to day command line autocompletion, history, and auto-pair matching, fortune greeting with lolcat and my personal scripting.
Thanks for the video. What a fun way to fancy up my command line. I used your instructions to fancy up my Ubuntu command line too, i spend a lot of time via SSH on remote command lines and this makes them much more useable as well. Great idea!
Just letting you know, I am a complete amateur at this kind of stuff and I spent the past 20 minutes EASILY putting this together without any issues. Thank you so much. So, I now use this instead of Terminal, right?
Thank you so much for this video, I wanted to do this with my terminal lonnnnnng time ago, and this is the first video that I really like and it works, really appreciate it, new follower here 😀
Excellent video! I finally got my first MBP M2, and this was icing on the cake! I've always loved the command line, and now I love it even more. Nice Job! Thanks!
Hey! I really appreciate that! Thanks for the awesome feedback. Really cool you’re using Astro Vim. Currently working on the vim configuration video, hoping to get it done soon!
Thank you for this great demonstration. I now have a complete new terminal and really like it. Maybe it is worth noting, that the installation will overwrite your .zshrc and moves the old one in a copy. Some personal settings need to be added after the setup.
Hey! Appreciate it! It definitely is a rabbit hole, but it’s pretty fun! The keyboard in this video is called an Iris and I made a wireless Corne recently.
Most underrated YT channel. Congrats and thanks for the very detailed videos that make me want to customize, use the terminal, vim etc more. And I'm absolutely not someone with an IT/CS background !
@@joseanmartinez Are you aware of any issue with Mason ? it keeps failing (except for python LSP). E.g. CSS-lsp returns a failure message env: node: No such file or directory spawn: npm failed with exit code 127 and signal 0. thanks !
@@jean-charlescouturier5535 Hmm, I’d download node. Looks like it’s trying to use npm to download the lsps. Use “brew install node” and then check if the issue with mason is resolved.
@@joseanmartinez you are legend. Worked like a charm ! thanks a lot for the super quick reply ! Also, would you be able to make a series about nvim setup for python by any chance ? cheers
@@jean-charlescouturier5535 Awesome! Happy to hear it fixed the issue! I’m mostly a javascript/typescript developer so I don’t think I’ll be making a series on python soon, but I would check out “jedi_language_server” for a possible lsp and “black” for a formatter. Haven’t tried them, but could possibly work well.
Hey guys! Wanted to point out that you have to be using the zsh shell which runs by default in macOS Catalina or later for this tutorial to work. To check if you are using zsh, you can run “echo $0” in your terminal and the output will tell you the name of your shell. If you are looking for the “.zshrc” file within Finder, navigate to your home folder and press “Command” + “Shift” + “.” to see your hidden files. Also, if you already had a zshrc file setup with specific configurations and follow this tutorial and they get overwritten, Oh-My-Zsh will save your original zshrc file here: “~/.zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh”. To undo everything you can use: “uninstall_oh_my_zsh”. Hope that helps!
Great video thanks a lot, how did you do hot-key visualisation on screen?
@@barche75 Hey! Thanks, really appreciate it! For showing my key presses, I use a macbook app called Keystroke Pro.
@@joseanmartinezwant to be freinds what's your contact?
Thanks for the additional comment, this is where I got stuck 😅
@@joseanmartinezlet's be freinds what's your contact?
My one stop guide for terminal setup. Concise, Clear and to the point video.
never wrote a line of code, or used terminal in my life - until today. Complete beginning starting out, and this was really easy to follow. Thank you for the supporting website with step by step instructions and the commands to copy. Great work
Before I watched the video, I knew this would be something like "use iterm2, zsh, and powerlevel10k". The plugins in the end were awesome, will be using all three of those
Oh, one other thing: an alternative to the right arrow key for zsh command completion is the Emacs key equivalent CTRL-f. By my lights this is preferable to right arrow because you don't have to move your right hand out of position. (The fact that Apple preserved the ability to have Emacs CTRL- command line shortcuts in the terminal was one of the things that motivated my switch from Linux to OS X a couple decades ago!)
thanks for that comment! I remember reading it a few months ago and not really doing anything with it, but trying to hit the right arrow all the time was really annoying. I've been trying to search for a solution but I couldn't find one and then remembered your comment and just came back to this video.
Also, this video is great btw, thanks Josean, I'm enjoying this iterm setup. I tried following your nvim video but ran into some issues with changes since you made the video and because I'm new to nvim it was kinda difficult to follow and understand everything in the setup. I may have also had an issue because I already tried to install the nvim kickstarter setup BEFORE trying to follow along with your video, and maybe there were some issues with compatibility of those two setups. Not sure if that's an issue but maybe explaining how to get to a base setup before following along with your nvim setup might be helpful. I don't' know a lot about that setup though so I could be wrong. Was just a bit frustrating.
cool, thank you!
Just what I was looking for, a simple way to make zsh look awesome without investing many hours into it. Thank you!
Awesome! Happy to hear the video was helpful!
"If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough" - Well sir you explained it as if it was 1+1=2, which goes to show that you know what you are talking about! Thanks a lot for this video, very useful and extremely easy to follow, understand and implement. 5 starts :)
A word of advice for anyone getting into ZSH: *avoid relying on oh-my-zsh in the long term.* The dirty secret is that everything it does is pretty trivial. All of the "plugins" are just scripts you could source yourself. It provides almost no value and just adds bloat to your configuration. Plus the plugins are one-size-fits-all solutions that usually just clutter everything up with crap you don't need or want.
I don't fault anyone for picking it up as a "quick startup" solution, because it does let you get from zero to a superficially pretty terminal very quickly. But once you start customizing you'll probably find it just gets in the way.
for a complete noob could you share resources on how to get scripts to run on the command line?
Thanks for the tip :) I'll probably still load them for a quick start but now I know this will try to roll my own over time
This was a brilliantly concise video! I loved the theme you created!! 10/10
Hey! Really happy to hear the video was helpful and you are enjoying the theme! Appreciate the feedback.
I know this an older video and you have a more recent one, but I found this one first, I just finished it and it was so incredibly helpful! I am brand new and just started learning to code. You explained all of the steps brilliantly and my terminal is SO much easier to look at and work in. Thank you!
Your explanations are super clear. I followed it to the tee and it worked perfectly. I would suggest doing an explanation on the functions of each of the packages you've used for clarity for newbies like me.
Literally one of the best tutorials. Clear, concise, and genuinely useful. Thank you!
Thanks so much for putting this together and for sharing your setup! Always loved developing on the terminal and now love it even more!
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback!
Really appreciate the video. Been doing more shell work and wanted something a bit more comfortable than Terminal. This is great! Would love to hear if you've used others for any time what pros and cons are of others. This has really leveled up my experience though :)
this is the third time i watch this video to configure a new computer, thanks this video is very efficient
I've been trying to customize my terminal for a really long time without success. You are the best. THANKS
This was the best video which taught everything about setting up iterm2 in just 1 video especially for a beginner like me small things like linking all the commands and everything it does for future reference was a great way. Thanks for this amazing tutorial, looking forward to watching your videos on setting up neovim and its workflows.
Hey! Really happy to hear that! Thank you for your feedback and I’m glad I could help! I’m currently working on the neovim video, taken me longer than I had planned but hoping to get it done very soon.
Awesome video. I had been searching for tutorials to make my terminal more exciting to use. By far the best tutorial and clear instructions. Thanks
Ayy, I always wondered how they got their terminals to look that fancy! Never had the time to figure it out, until I came across this video! :D The auto-suggestion feature is really nice too!
As a non coder who is just starting out this was fun that autosuggest really felt good.😆👍🏻
Thank you for this, I do everything as you said in the video with a little tweak of customization on my own and it looks so much more pleasing to my eyes than ever. Thank for making my life less miserable looking at the terminal.
coding in the terminal is mental. Respect.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WASN'T MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
- downloading oh my zsh completely clears your existing configuration in your .zshrc file and therefore breaks a lot of things (like conda). Make sure you backup/save a copy of your old .zshrc file before doing this. After completing all of the steps in the video, get your old .zshrc configuration and copy paste it to the top of the new .zshrc config file. Everything should work how it did before again.
- After following the video, some of the features in iterm2 will "break" again. In order to fix it, make sure to redownload shell integration by going to help and typing install shell configuration. This should again bring everything back to normal.
Other than that, great video and has really improved the terminal 10 fold.
I came here after I started watching the Yabai video made by you.
After configuring my terminal I'm ready to head back. Thanks!
Love this. There are others like it, but thanks for not just verbally “blasting” over it all and making sure you enunciate well!
Thanks alot Sir! Your videos help us alot to be more productive on the machine!
Just watched the yabai and iterm2 video and setup my new mac, loving the feel all because of you!
By much, the guide I was looking for to dive into the Command Line world; followed your instructions, it worked like a charm. Thanks!
Thank you.I have tried your totorial and my terminal is not the same again. love it.
The quality of this video and its content is through the roof 🔥
Thank you, Sir 🎩
yeah. this dude's about to kill it. extremely impressed.
I appreciate this video, as my iTerm setup was a bit stale, and this gave me ideas for getting it better customized to make like easier for me. Solid video.
I do a lot of work in a bash terminal, and your video will make the experience a lot better. Thank you for the supporting link with the command you used. I look forward to seeing your other videos! 👍
This tutorial is super newbee friendly! You are an amazing teacher.
Just here to say: your color theme probably inspired the macOS Sonoma theme. They look consistent together.
I watch your videos when I am depressed. They make me feel better 😊
Really looking forward to the Vim + Tmux setup tutorial!
Awesome, happy to hear that!
Awesome video. I always want to use colors to my terminal and this was very easy you made this al together. Thanks for explaining each step and providing us a documented steps as well. 👍
I love this it was so clear and you even gave a command to undo all the changes!
I prefer Fish Shell over zsh. Most of what OhMyZsh configures with plugins, are the out of box defaults with Fish. OhMyZsh can slow zsh down quite a bit if you run too many plugins. The only downside to Fish is that it is not POSIX compliant. So I'll spin up zsh for those times when I have to run a sh / bash script for an installer, etc. Scripting in Fish is quite nice and is fine for personal scripts. On some systems, I keep the default zsh but run Fish with .zlogin so I can exit Fish and return to Zsh when necessary. But default to using Fish for day to day command line autocompletion, history, and auto-pair matching, fortune greeting with lolcat and my personal scripting.
Muchas gracias !!!! he empezado desde 0 (ya oxidado) y comence desde este video hasta los últimos !
great vid, I set up my terminal in this way and maaaaan I was missing out by using the default one, thanks for sharing this
One stop terminal setup for Macbook! Great job and your blogpost is pretty Neat.
Thanks for saving time.
i like how non mac users like to customize their systems to look like mac, and mac users like to custom their systems to not look like mac
This really help me setup my nvim environment coming from VSC! Thanks for this tutorial, much appreciated Josean!!!!!!!!!!!!
So grateful that youtube’s algorithm took me to your channel!
Thanks. didn't need the video just used the blog. looks lovely!
Very nice straightforward way of dressing up Terminal. I enjoyed this!
A really good and straightforward tutorial on setting up Neovim, really great! I cannot wait to start and setup Neovim for PHP development!
Thanks for the video. What a fun way to fancy up my command line. I used your instructions to fancy up my Ubuntu command line too, i spend a lot of time via SSH on remote command lines and this makes them much more useable as well. Great idea!
OMG, bro thanks for the amazing content
now i am happy with my new shell, thanks a lot brother
Nice calm informative. Wish all tuts on YT had this level of proficiency.
this video is great! everything looks so much better with these changes. thank goodness i never have to use that boring old terminal ever again 🙌🏼
Well done! I recently fixed my Macbook and was looking for a playlist like this. Thanks a lot!
I need more a MacBook for my as a dev after watching this video. Awesome
Just letting you know, I am a complete amateur at this kind of stuff and I spent the past 20 minutes EASILY putting this together without any issues. Thank you so much. So, I now use this instead of Terminal, right?
Awesome! Happy to hear that. Yes, I don't use the default Terminal anymore.
Really great job for us, the beginners! Thank you for your time and your effort.
I just loved. This video was extremely useful for me as a newbie that I am in the MacBook Pro architecture!!Thank you!!
one of the best youtuber for programming related content
Wow powerlevel really evolved. I remember doing all the config myself and thus switched to starship 😂
Hey bro you posted this video at the right time thanks 👍 I would comment for this video
Awesome! Glad I could help!
Thanks for your sharing, i just bought my M2 recently
Thank you for sharing this I have been looking to zsh theme to change my terminal I would highly recomend this content. Good job!!!!
Excellent tutorial! Clear, concise, and very much helpful!
Wow... Awesome Explanation which was so clear and crisp.Made my terminal look so cool
genius. thanks. upon my second attempt I got it done
Thank you so much for this video, I wanted to do this with my terminal lonnnnnng time ago, and this is the first video that I really like and it works, really appreciate it, new follower here 😀
Excellent tutorial. I was set up and configured immediately. Keep up the good work
Brother, what you said is really great!! I hope there are more videos about the terminal for me to learn.
Happy to hear I could help!
Amazing! Only ten minutes to do something awesome! Thank you!!
Excellent video! I finally got my first MBP M2, and this was icing on the cake! I've always loved the command line, and now I love it even more. Nice Job! Thanks!
Best video ever! Can't wait for your vim+tmux configuration. I currently use astro vim, but it would be cool to see your configuration
Hey! I really appreciate that! Thanks for the awesome feedback. Really cool you’re using Astro Vim. Currently working on the vim configuration video, hoping to get it done soon!
Thank you so much for this video...Now my terminal experience is on the next level.
Thanks a lot. My terminal looks like a Pro's terminal now.
Very helping making life easier with handy terminal
best tutorial out there , really loved it , complete info , and no problems
Excellent job, very concise and well presented information!!
Awesome! My terminal looks great. Thank you for making this.
another great video! couldnt remember how to setup powerline... seems like its even easier now
The plugins were really helpful! Thank you for making this vide
Clear and straight to the point, thank you!
This is awesome! Your instructions were clear and concise. You just made me a very happy camper. Thanks for the excellent video. Aloha!
Awesome Thank you... your Style/clothes reminds me on the 80s Nerd style (awesome) and I really like this super cool Glas. Thank you for sharing
Thank you!! I'm flying with this new setup!
Awesome man!! It's a nice improvement to the plain terminal. You already won a new subscriptor! Nice content bro!!
Awesome video, now my terminal looks very cool, thanks!
Clear and concise explanation. Thank you Man!
awesome Dude, and I have implementation your tutorial to my Mac Air, so now my iterm looks much color full
awesome tutorial...just set this up on my m3 and its awesome..thanks for sharing
Best tutorial and straight to the point. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Great production all around.
Awesome video, thanks for the info. Coming from primarily a Win OS having the hot keys in the vid was extremely helpful!
Slick, smooth and simple step-by-step process to setup Mac Terminal! Thx!
Glad I could help!
Thank you for this great demonstration. I now have a complete new terminal and really like it. Maybe it is worth noting, that the installation will overwrite your .zshrc and moves the old one in a copy. Some personal settings need to be added after the setup.
Just incredibly helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Your calm and thorough delivery really helps a newbie like me. Thank you!
Dude, your keyboard game is next level 😅. Never seen that before, and you're so comfortable with it... 👌
Hey! Appreciate it! It definitely is a rabbit hole, but it’s pretty fun! The keyboard in this video is called an Iris and I made a wireless Corne recently.
I love it everything explained smoothly , Thank you !
After this video I found one thing I am okay with my terminal
Most underrated YT channel. Congrats and thanks for the very detailed videos that make me want to customize, use the terminal, vim etc more. And I'm absolutely not someone with an IT/CS background !
I really appreciate that, means a lot!
@@joseanmartinez Are you aware of any issue with Mason ? it keeps failing (except for python LSP). E.g. CSS-lsp returns a failure message env: node: No such file or directory
spawn: npm failed with exit code 127 and signal 0.
thanks !
@@jean-charlescouturier5535 Hmm, I’d download node. Looks like it’s trying to use npm to download the lsps. Use “brew install node” and then check if the issue with mason is resolved.
@@joseanmartinez you are legend. Worked like a charm ! thanks a lot for the super quick reply !
Also, would you be able to make a series about nvim setup for python by any chance ? cheers
@@jean-charlescouturier5535 Awesome! Happy to hear it fixed the issue! I’m mostly a javascript/typescript developer so I don’t think I’ll be making a series on python soon, but I would check out “jedi_language_server” for a possible lsp and “black” for a formatter. Haven’t tried them, but could possibly work well.
Great tutorial and the blog commands really help. Thanks a lot!
Great job on video! Eye-pleasing edit, thanks!
Thanks for showing us how to pimp our terminal.