ohmyzsh VS alacritty

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I don't believe that but I use https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/git

Oh My Zsh is an open-source Zsh framework used to add extra functionalities for Zsh, turbocharging the entire Zsh user experience. Oh My Zsh’s extra advanced features cause users who frequently use the terminal to gravitate towards Zsh.

Para saber mais sobre o Oh-My-Zsh, consulte o seguinte link.

The first tool I always install is OhMyZsh.

That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!

Step 2: Setting Up Oh My ZSH

If you are using Oh My ZSH as your shell of choice, you can add plugins=(... aws ) to your .zshrc / profile and besides having autocomplete for the AWS CLI you will also immediately see in the terminal window what is the current AWS profile you are logged in.

Good news if you use zsh: just type history -i

I've mentioned above that I've been using robbyrussell (from here) for my iTerm2 terminal setup, so I wondered if the same one is available. I was about to start googling the list of available topics, but I've noticed a hint in the Ghostty doc to run ghostty +list-themes in the terminal, and here is what has happened:

ZSH and Oh My ZSH offer superpowers to your terminal thanks to its customization and wide variety of plugins.

Rust is one of the most appreciated programming languages, as highlighted in the GitHub Octoverse Survey. It offers memory safety, high performance, and strong tooling, making it a solid choice for both small utilities and large-scale applications. Many of the tools I use daily, like Alacritty and 1Password, benefit from Rust's speed and reliability.

That's it! Happy CLI mastery with Zellij, Oh My zsh and Alacritty!

I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129

I also tried Alacritty, but it is very basic and lacks the features I need. Recently, I tested Ghostty, which has gained huge attention – it has nice defaults, but its RAM usage is concerning (around 250MB per empty tab). Currently, it also lacks buffer search, which makes the terminal useless for me.

That's a great approach.

Not sure on the current state of Alacritty, but a few years back the suggested solution for users interested in battery performance was to switch a different terminal emulator: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3473#issuecomm...

The terminal I am currently using is st but I have also tested this "Vifm" enhancement in kitty and alacritty.

I chose Alacritty for this. Why? Because it's written in Rust. Is there any other reason? It also has a pretty simple and has an easy to understand settings page and uses TOML. It also has built in support for vi motions. All wins. It's pretty easy to install as well, just follow the link above. I went with the portable version. Just make sure you note where it is going to look for the configuration files.

For a moment I was concerned about the terminal emulator alacritty[0], which this post, as it turns out, luckily is not about.

0. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

Is not mandatory but for the ones interested, I am using the Alacritty terminal, so if you're interested you can download it using the following command in your terminal: