Posts tagged with: zsh

I use zsh as my preferred shell. It's been a while since I last updated my zsh profile and thought I'd look into implementing some useful command completion to try and make my life easier. I was particularly interested in zfs(1M), zoneadm(1M), pkg(1M), svcs(1M) and svccfg(1M). Well, imagine my surprise when I discovered most of my work has already been done for me.  Continue reading ►

I've just updated my system to the latest OpenSolaris release (snv_109) and suddenly my ZSH prompt has lost all it's colours (I use them to clearly distinguish between me and the root user - I'm also a bit of a customisation freak ;-) ).A little bit of research soon revealed that OpenSolaris snv_109 and later now ships with ZSH 4.3.9 in which they changed the prompt colouring scheme, and for the better too as it's far easier to understand.  Continue reading ►