Using Different Shell Prompt

[John Mewhort]

I'm curious why some of you guys use a different command line shell prompt instead of just sticking with Terminal?  Are there any benefits for using something other than Terminal or is it just a preference thing? 

If you do use something other than Terminal...please share or point me to a link somewhere so I can learn why I should think about using something different.

Thanks,

John -  Jedi in Training

PS I just discovered www.peepcode.com.  Great tutorials for a newbie like myself!  :-)

[Brennan Dunn]

A standard OS X install is going to set your user up with bash for the shell. I know Ken and I both use ZSH, which we both swear by. My ZSH dotfiles are available at http://github.com/brennandunn/zsh_dotfiles and there are plenty of articles online that discuss ZSH and how to set it as your shell.

-Brennan

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[John Mewhort]

Brennan - Thanks for sharing!  What would you say is the "ONE" feature that is a must have for you that bash doesn't have?  

[Mike McKinney]

didn't Ken or Brennan do a presentation on their environment which included some of this?  (not sure if we captured any of that talk or if we even had it... but seem to remember for some reason... getting old maybe?)

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[Ken Collins]

Just got from Richmond today, I think Brennan is in DC/Maryland by now and headed to RubyConf tomorrow and representing 757 for us.

I love ZSH because of it tab completion with pretty much everything. I remember git/svn command would never complete in Bash unless some wizardry was performed. Most casual users would not notice the difference between Bash/ZSH and for that reason you should just switch and learn one. I say learn, I myself never really learned anything, I just write a ton of aliases and some top level functions. For instance here is a function in my dot files that are actually themselves in a private git repo sync'ed to my mail server.

function sync_zkit () {

  cd ~/.zshkit

  gco working

  git add . 

  git stash

  gco master

  git pull mini master

  gco working

  git rebase master

  git stash pop

  git add . 

  gca -m "Backup"

  gco master

  git rebase working

  git push mini master

  gco working

  reload

}

We did do a talk on this but it was one of the casual/group ones. So no formal leftover presentation material. Brennan's pubic dot files are where I started, but eventually I just kept them private and sync them on a repo here locally.

 - Ken

[nem...@gmail.com]

I've used tcsh since like the early 90's, maybe late 80's.

I use a tweak of the .tcshrc files found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcshrc/

Tried and have used Bash... just like tcsh, and it also has
completions and with the above .tcshrc files you have a pretty darn
good shell. Was the default shell on NeXT, and early OS X releases...
just not anymore on the latter... I think bash is the default these
days..

-Michael

On Nov 17, 3:22 pm, John Mewhort <jmewh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm curious why some of you guys use a different command line shell prompt
> instead of just sticking with Terminal?  Are there any benefits for using
> something other than Terminal or is it just a preference thing?
>
> If you do use something other than Terminal...please share or point me to a
> link somewhere so I can learn why I should think about using something
> different.
>
> Thanks,

> John -  *Jedi in Training*
>
> PS I just discoveredwww.peepcode.com.  Great tutorials for a newbie like
> myself!  :-)