Some Useful Information and Resources on Zsh + Git, Vim

Sciware: Tools and Workflow Show and Tell

Date: July 18, 2019

Presenter: Nils Wentzell

My config files can be found here

Zsh

Why should you use it?

Powerful globbing expressions
Intelligent autocompletion and autocorrection
Plugin-based through oh-my-zsh
Powerful and customizeable command line prompts
Git command line integration

Installation

Install through system package manager (recommended) or compile from source
Initial configuration setup through oh-my-zsh
Use chsh -s $(which zsh) to change your default shell or ask SCC to change it for you on the ldap based linux workstations

Some remarks

Enable extended globbing by adding setopt extendedglob to your ~/.zshrc
Enable completion by adding autoload -Uz compinit to you ~/.zshrc

Some globbing examples

ls **/a.out -- Find a.out recursing into all subdirectories
ls *.(c|h) -- Files ending in .h or .c (Groupings)
ls <10-13>.txt -- List files with matching the integer range
ls *.^c -- Negation, files not ending in c
ls **/<10-13>*.(c|h) -- Combine them

Pattern Globbing examples

ls *(.) -- regular files
ls *(x) -- executable files
ls *(.x) -- regular executable files
ls *(@) -- links
ls *(W) -- world-writeable files
ls *(R) -- world-readable files

Don't forget your command history reverse search (Ctrl + R)

git

Useful alias for command line branch history viewing

Set the alias for git l using git config --global alias.l "log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(yellow)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all"

Vim

Plugin Managers

Vundle -- https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim
vim-plug -- https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

A small selection of plugins I use

vim-scripts/GrepCommands - Useful commands to grep through multiple files at once
scrooloose/nerdcommenter - Easy commenting / uncommenting of blocks for various programming languages
prabirshrestha/vim-lsp - Add support for the Language Server Protocol to use tools such as e.g. clangd and pyls
vim-airline/vim-airline - Nice status bar

Language Server Protocol

Separate programming language support from the editor / IDE
Provides functionality such as auto completion, jump to definition, variable replacements, compiler errors and warnings, ...
Initially developed for VSCode, now an open standard
Integrates with many editors