Terminal
Customization
Colors and Font Settings
Here are some suggested settings you can change or set, they are all optional.
- Download Solarized Light and then set these to your default profile colors
- Change the font to 14pt Meslo for Powerline. Source Code Pro can be downloaded here.
- If you're using BASH instead of ZSH you can add
export CLICOLOR=1
line to your~/.bash_profile
file for nice coloring of listings
MacOS shortcuts ⌘←, ⌘→ and ⌥←, ⌥→
You might be familiar with shortcuts to skip a word (⌥) or go to start/end of the line (⌘). iTerm is not set up to work with these shortcuts by default but here's how you set them up:
Open up iTerm2 preferences (⌘ + ,) -> Profiles -> Keys -> Click on +
icon (add new Keyboard shortcut).
shortcut | action | send |
---|---|---|
⌘← | SEND ESC SEQ | OH |
⌘→ | SEND ESC SEQ | OF |
⌥← | SEND ESC SEQ | b |
⌥→ | SEND ESC SEQ | f |