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Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
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Posted by Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

What Customization Needed For Terminal Display?

Hey there,

I really enjoy the custom terminal Jim Hoskins uses while coding in Ruby. Could either Jim or someone else point me in the direction to change mine so it looks exactly like his?

Thanks :)

5 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Jim just customized his prompt using the PS1 variable

He covered how to do this in the Console Foundations course's Environment Variables video at time-index 1:53

further reading:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html

Carl Reyes
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Carl Reyes
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Carl Reyes
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points

I'm not sure exactly what they're using, but I'd look into zsh (specifically 'Oh My Zsh') - it's a great project and a better interface in my opinion

Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points
Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

Thanks Carl Reyes, I'll look it up and give it a try.

Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points
Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

Got Og My Zsh installed and it is pretty cool! Thank you for letting me know about it. There are so much documentation on it and you could spend an entire day playing with the themes and different plugins for it haha.

Carl Reyes
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points

Yeah it's pretty great. Just being able to do simple things like tracking git branches is nice. Oh and the pretty colors

Carl Reyes
Carl Reyes
Courses Plus Student 7,225 Points

Yeah it's pretty great. Just being able to do simple things like tracking git branches is nice. Oh and the pretty colors

Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points
Dillon Carter
Dillon Carter
6,364 Points

Haha I do like the pretty colors. I like how I can keep the branches and file Dir. to the right while all of my commands stay on the left. Makes it a bit more organized for me.