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.zshrc and cousins

Features

• XDG basedirs
• Powerline support if installed
• virtualenvwrapper support if installed
• zsh-syntax-highlight support if installed
• Git integration enabled
• 256-color support by default
  • Colors enabled by default in ls, grep, dmesg and less!
• Add your extra stuff in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh/profile
  • Put your custom completions in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh/completion/
• Saner defaults for diff, hexdump, xclip and more

More aliases

• bk <file>: Back up a file
• htmime <url>: Get the content type of a URL
• google <query>: Open your default browser on a google query
• hr: print a terminal-wide banner
• launch <app> [args]: Launch a binary, disowning it from the terminal immediately
• lscolors: list all available colors
• perms <args>: Print file permissions (octal and text)
• myip: Print the machine's public ip (uses ifconfig.me service)
• sprunge: Pastebin stdin (uses sprunge.us service)

Requires Python 3+

• mkhttp: Run a webserver in cwd (uses Python 3 http.server)
• urlencode: Quote stdin with url-encoding (percent-encoding)
• urldecode: Unquote percent-encoded stdin
• urlarray: Convert a querystring into pretty JSON
• json: Indent and prettify json code
• yaml: Print YAML contents as pretty-JSON

Other fun stuff

• Ctrl+E: Edit the current line in your $EDITOR
• Expand "...": Typing ... is expanded to ../..; .... expands to ../../.. and so on.
• Typing a naked directory assumes "cd " is implied.
• The "⇄" icon will show up on the right side of the tty when the shell is running in a SSH session.

Compatibility

This script requires Zsh >= 5.0. A 4.0-compatible version, with less features, is available in the compat/ folder. NOTE: Cygwin users should set TERM=cygwin in their profile file, otherwise keybindings may be messed up.