radleylewis/zsh

This repository holds a personal zsh shell configuration built by its author for their own everyday terminal use, shared publicly so others can adopt or reference it. The README describes it as powerful but tastefully minimal, meaning it adds useful behavior without becoming cluttered or slow to load. Setup involves installing a handful of well known command line tools alongside zsh itself: neovim as a text editor, eza and bat as modern replacements for ls and cat, fd and ripgrep for fast file and text searching, fzf for fuzzy searching, zoxide for smarter directory jumping, and starship for a customizable shell prompt. The README gives separate install commands for Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and macOS, showing it has been tested across more than one operating system. Once installed, you clone the repository directly into your zsh configuration folder and point zsh at it using an environment variable. From there, a handful of plugins are automatically downloaded on first launch by a built in plugin manager, so you do not need to install a separate third party plugin manager first. The plugins add syntax highlighting as you type commands, fish shell style inline suggestions, substring based history search when pressing the up and down arrows, and vi style keybindings for editing the command line. The README also documents specific keyboard shortcuts, such as fuzzy searching your command history or files with fzf, and jumping forward or backward by word. A Starship prompt configuration file is included and loaded automatically, though it requires a Nerd Font installed in your terminal to display its icons correctly. This is a straightforward, well documented dotfiles repository aimed at developers who already use the command line and want a faster, prettier terminal setup rather than a general audience tool.