How to install

iTerm2

Download and install iTerm2 (it has better color fidelity than the built in Terminal).

Get the iTerm color settings

Just save it somewhere and open the file(s). The color settings will be imported into iTerm2. Apply them in iTerm through iTerm -> preferences -> profiles -> colors -> load presets. You can create a different profile, other than Default if you wish to do so.

Oh my zsh

More info here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Install with curl

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

When the installation is done, edit ~/.zshrc and set ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Install a patched font

Meslo (the one in the screenshot). Click "view raw" to download the font.
Others @ powerline fonts

Open the downloaded font and press "Install Font".

Set this font in iTerm2 (14px is my personal preference) (iTerm -> preferences -> profiles -> text).

Regular Font -> "Change Font"
Non-ASCII Font -> "Change Font"

Restart iTerm2 for all changes to take effect.

Further tweaking

Things like

auto suggestions
word jumping with arrow keys
shorter prompt style

can be found in the section below.

Auto suggestions (for oh-my-zsh)

Just follow these steps: https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions#oh-my-zsh

Enable word jumps

By default, word jumps (options + → or ←) do not work. You can make this work by going to iTerm - preferences - Keys.

Under global shortcut keys, add the following keyboard shortcuts:

Option + right

⌥→
Send Escape Sequence
f

Option + left

⌥←
Send Escape Sequence
b

Shorter prompt style

By default, your prompt will now show “user@hostname” in the prompt. This will make your prompt rather bloated. Optionally set DEFAULT_USER in ~/.zshrc to your regular username (these must match) to hide the “user@hostname” info when you’re logged in as yourself on your local machine. You can check your username value by executing whoami in the terminal.

marco-martins/iterm2-solarized.md