Setup a new coding environment on OSX

Everything should be installed via Homebrew for the sake of simplicity and ease of uninstallation

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

It is quite common to be confused between brew and brew cask. In the nut shell, brew installs command-line softwares while brew caskinstalls graphical applications and it deals with licencees.

Install git with ssh

I find my old post about Git and SSH useful indeed

Install iTerm2

brew cask install iterm2

Before heading to the next headline, there is some good words here https://sourabhbajaj.com/mac-setup/iTerm/zsh.html

Install Oh My Zsh

This Oh My Zsh is a framework built to manage Zsh configuration. In its own world, Zsh is a nicely designed interactive shell that I love to use when I develop. There are some better alternatives but I haven’t got time to try them out.

• First step is off course, install Zsh

brew install zsh

More instructions about how to install Zsh on different OS can be found [here] (https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH)

• Invoke zsh for the first time will take you to the configuration menu where a shitload of options to be configured. The result should be a .zshsrc file more ~/.zshrc

brew install zsh

# Lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
setopt nomatch
unsetopt autocd beep
bindkey -e
# End of lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
# The following lines were added by compinstall
zstyle :compinstall filename '/Users/thtru/.zshrc'

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
# End of lines added by compinstall

• Themes Simply choose a theme you like for example

# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME="pygmalion"

The best instruction so far for on “Powerlevel9k”, a very good theme https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070

Install Emacs

Emacs is always my favourite editor especially for a quick change.

brew install emacs

and it is invoked with simply emacs command

To be continued