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What's this?

Instructions to obtain ZSH on a windows environment, without the input funny business presented by some other attempted solutions.

The final result is ZSH running on a mintty terminal, emulated by cygwin, and being handled by the popular cmder.

Why is this here?

For the benefit of myself and others. I've already followed these instructions twice. It took me hours to figure all this out, maybe someone else can save a few.

What exactly is covered?

Installing and setting up cmder

I recently switched over to neovim (see my screenshots at the bottom). Below is my updated config file.

It's currently synchronized with my .vimrc config except for a block of neovim-specific terminal key mappings.

This is still a work in progress (everyone's own config is always a labor of love), but I'm already extremely pleased with how well this is working for me with neovim. While terminal mode isn't enough to make me stop using tmux, it is quite good and I like having it since it simplifies my documentation workflow for yanking terminal output to paste in a markdown buffer.

These days I primarily develop in Go. I'm super thrilled and grateful for fatih/vim-go,

Installation

You can add the gcd script to your local bin path or you can add the followin snippet to your bash .profile or zsh .zshrc file.

function gcd {
  REPO=$1
  CLONEPATH=$2

 if [ -z $CLONEPATH ]; then

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

	import React, { Component } from 'react';
	import './App.css';

	class LoginPage extends Component {
	constructor() {
	super();
	this.state = {
	username: '',
	password: '',
	error: '',

	# output all the colour combinations for text/background
	# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20541456/list-of-all-colors-available-for-powershell/41954792#41954792
	$colors = [enum]::GetValues([System.ConsoleColor])
	Foreach ($bgcolor in $colors){
	Foreach ($fgcolor in $colors) { Write-Host "$fgcolor\|" -ForegroundColor $fgcolor -BackgroundColor $bgcolor -NoNewLine }
	Write-Host " on $bgcolor"
	}

	// returns a Promise which fulfills with the result of a shell command
	// rejects with stderr
	function run(command) {
	return new Promise((fulfill, reject) => {
	exec(command, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
	if (err) {
	reject(err);
	return;
	}

	@echo off

	setlocal
	call :setESC

	cls
	echo %ESC%[101;93m STYLES %ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[0m %ESC%[0mReset%ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[1m %ESC%[1mBold%ESC%[0m
	echo ^<ESC^>[4m %ESC%[4mUnderline%ESC%[0m

	$script:bg = [Console]::BackgroundColor;
	$script:first = $true;
	$script:last = 0;

	function Write-PromptFancyEnd {
	Write-Host  -NoNewline -ForegroundColor $script:bg

	$script:bg = [System.ConsoleColor]::Black
	}

	# from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180270/check-if-current-directory-is-a-git-repository
	[ -d .git ] \|\| git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1