Iterm2 git status bar1/5/2024 ![]() ![]() The “Auto Rainbow” button colorizes each component match rainbow colors. You also can configure the status bar by “Advanced…” dialog and each component by “Configure Component” dialog. You can drag-drop available components into the Active Components section. iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> SessionĬlick the "Configure Status Bar" button in the session window, and it will open a Status Bar Component menu. ENABLE AND MODIFY iTERM.2 STATUS BARġ.2.1. Appearance -> Theme -> Select Minimal Themeġ.2. Open iTerm and open the preferences window. ENABLING THE MATERIAL THEME ON iTERM.2ġ.1.1. You also may find the installation guide on the website. INSTALLING iTERM.2 LATEST VERSIONĭownload iTerm from the offical release website. In this article, I would like to walk you through the configurations and plugins of iTerm.2, ZSH and VIM to create a colorized and more interactive terminal as displayed in the attached images. VIM also got hundreds of plugins such as syntax highlighters, status bars, tabbed bars, file trees, code linters, which make VIM more applicable to software development, server administration and dev-ops works. But I bet, you can’t live without VIM, once you got used to it. VIMis that confusing for first-time users. And also it is very funny, one of the popular stackoverflowquestion was “How do I exit the Vim editor?”. You may find it is hard to get stand with VIM because its’ tricky behaviour. I don’t think it is necessary to introduce VIM, the most popular terminal based text editor. Please use a light-weight shell alternative (such as Bourne Shell - SH) for such purposes. So ZSH is not recommended as a server-side, or a containerized shell. However it comes with in-build plugins and add-ons, which makes the distro comparatively bigger and also ZSH is bit weighty in the runtime. Oh-my-zsh is a nice interactive terminal for users. ![]() ZSHalso has over 125 in-built themes and also it is possible to modify or create your own theme and plug into the ZSH. Especially for developers it has nice plugins for git, docker, kubernetes, and syntax highlighting which make developers to die for ZSH. ZSHhas got a massive amount of community developed plugins to make the terminal life more easier. That’s why I would like to name it as the next generation of the shell. But nothing was even closer to the “Oh-my-zsh” (ZSH), which is a community driven, open-source, and also comes with thousands of functions, helpers, plugins and themes. I have played enough with many of the shell variants, Bourne Shell (SH), Bourne Again Shell (BASH), Friendly Interactive Shell (FISH), and etc. ![]() That was something I was waiting for in last few years, and I directly switched to the Minimal theme right after iTerm2 v3.3 got released. It was an exciting news, the latest iTerm.2 version 3.3 released incorporating stunning and brand new features including the customizable Status Bar, Minimal theme and also Python scripting facilities. It could be better in certain ways such as the availability for various operating systems, colorful UI, Javascript like configuration, and etc. Every cloud has a silver lining:I don’t really mean that the Hyper is the worse. Also Hyper is bit weighty and not running smoothly since it is developed on top of Electron, a NodeJs desktop application framework which enables web applications to run as desktop applications. Why I don’t say Hyper is the best terminal emulator for Mac?, because it doesn’t have the flexibility over configurations which iTerm.2 offer by default (or even Terminator does for Linux). But I wanted iTerm to be more beautiful and eye-catchy with a minimal design theme, similar to the Hyper. I am a very good lover of iTerm.2, which the best alternative terminal emulator for MacOS. It can’t be hidden it is my first love and she goes to the second. The ugly truth is mostly I spend the time with the terminal over with my girlfriend.
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