I started using ZSH in favor of good old bash in my OS X terminal. Now I spent some time tweaking the configuration and would like to share the result with you.
The zshrc contains a nice prompt, several aliases, useful functions and some modifications of tab completion. You can download the file here.
If you also want to use the ZSH in your terminal, just open the terminal application’s preferences and enter the following command for execution on start-up:
/bin/zsh -l
The lowercase L is important. It tells the shell to perform a log-in, otherwise your configuration would not be read. This is a very nice way of using ZSH without changing your user’s default shell.
But there is one major limitation: while jumping between words works flawlessly using CTRL-Left and CTRL-Right, deleting one word backward using CTRL-Backspace does just not work. If you know a solution, please tell me.
