zsh

All shells understand these commands: $ cd . $ cd .. And zsh will also understand: $ cd ... $ cd .... Provided you say: $ alias -g ...='../..' $ alias -g ....='../../..' Now, how can I make it do proper tab-completion when I've started typing cd ..../<TAB> ? I recall it was implemented in oh-my-zsh but I've stopped using it now. It would also be appreciated if it would work not only for cd , say I want to execute cat ..../a/b/..../c/d | less . I wasn't happy with the other answers so I spent a bit of time getting something more to my liking. The following will expand the dots when you hit ↵

I want to change the color of the input text in zsh (the text that I type for each command). Example: in user@host> ls ~/ I would want ls ~/ to be yellow to stand out from standard output. I know I can accomplish this in bash using export PS1=" $BIGreen \u@\h \w \$ $IYellow" At the end of the prompt, the color is set to Yellow, input text I type is yellow (with the appropriate color variables defined). And then trap 'echo -ne "\e[0m"' DEBUG Which resets the color to normal when the outputs of my command are displayed. How can I accomplish this in zsh ? Currently, I have PROMPT=$'{$fg[green]%}

I want to set the environment variable I added below the line to ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile but it didn't work. export JBOSS_HOME=/Users/{USERNAME}/Desktop/jboss7 Afterward, exit the terminal and open it again when executing echo $JBOSS_HOME I get nothing. Apple has changed the default shell to zsh. Therefore you have to rename your configuration files. .bashrc is now .zshrc and .bash_profile is now .zprofile . I created a new file called /usr/local/bin/mybash which contains a wrapper script: /usr/local/bin/bash --init-file $HOME/.bashrc I installed this local/bin/bash from HomeBrew . Full

I just encountered the following error with zsh when trying to use logcat. Namely, when typing: adb logcat *:D I get the following error in zsh zsh: no matches found: *:D I have to escape the * like : adb logcat \*:D While using bash, I do not get the following error. Why would it be like this? zsh warns you by default if you use a glob with no matches. Bash, on the other hand, passes the unexpanded glob to the app, which is a potential problem if you don't know for certain what will match (or if you make a mistake). You can tell zsh to pass the unevaluated argument like bash with setopt

Is it possible to color the completed part of the partial completion results in Zsh? Fish does this by default (in Gentoo at least) as shown in the image below: Full size image: http://i.imgur.com/tN6w3.png Yes, you can do it with things like that: zstyle -e ':completion:*:default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)*==02=01}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")' Just change the 01 and 02 colors so it matches your taste, for example to match your screenshot: zstyle -e ':completion:*:default' list-colors 'reply=("${PREFIX:+=(#bi)($PREFIX:t)(?)*==34=34}:${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}")'; (Taken from reddit