How do I add the user's name to my commandline? - zsh

Currently an example line of my terminal will start with -> ~ git:(master)
But I'd like to update it to use the current user too: -> [tom] ~ git:(master)
Right now I'm using oh-my-zsh and I thought to override it, I'd add something to my .zshrc file, but I can't seem to find out where/what to add

You can use a zsh prompt expansion sequence, found in the manual page for zshmisc.
If you're using oh-my-zsh it's a bit tricky: you need to figure out what theme you're using, then modify it to include the right prompt sequence. The themes are kept in $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/themes. If you're really stuck, you could include the theme you're using in your question :)
The prompt expansion you're probably looking for is %n, which expands to $USERNAME.

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Why plugin z of zsh is not active inside the .zshrc?

I installed oh my zsh and zsh auto suggestion. Then I read here (https://www.sitepoint.com/zsh-tips-tricks/) about z zsh, an interesting plugin. And I really wanted to install it. So I put the plugin inside my .zshrc file. But the plugin feature is not active, it's not yellow like source command or alias (and those are properly working). I tried to change place of the plugin line (after / before source), but it didn't work. I did'nt understand the first line. My .zshrc, if someone could help...:
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export ZSH="/home/yanalolux/.oh-my-zsh"
ZSH_THEME="ys"
. /home/yanalolux/z.sh
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
plugins=(z zsh-autosuggestions)
plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions)
In your .zshrc you have the following two lines:
plugins=(z zsh-autosuggestions)
plugins=(zsh-autosuggestions)
The second line remove the z plugin. You should have only one line with:
plugins=(z zsh-autosuggestions)
According to the ZSH-z plugin Github homepage:
ZSH-z is a command line tool that allows you to jump quickly to directories that you have visited frequently in the past, or recently -- but most often a combination of the two (a concept known as "frecency"). It works by keeping track of when you go to directories and how much time you spend in them. It is then in the position to guess where you want to go when you type a partial string, e.g. z src might take you to ~/src/zsh.

Customizing Powerleve10k prompt

I just added the Powerlevel10k theme to my zsh and i'm trying to configure certain parts.
It currently looks like this:
The ~/.p10k.zsh has a lot of configurations done and I've been trying to change certain things but i'm not there yet.
I don't want to print the whole path on the left prompt, just the directory. Also, not sure what those numbers indicate in the git section. And the right prompt is displaying my ruby version, although I haven't used Ruby in ages and want to change it to a different setting.
I've tried adding a PS1=... to .zshrc but it seems to be overriden by the P10K config file.
Any suggestions?
Display only the last directory segment
Open ~/.p10k.zsh.
Search for POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_STRATEGY.
Change the value of this parameter to truncate_to_last.
Alternatively, change the value of POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_MAX_LENGTH to 1. This will maximally shorten current directory while keeping the transformation reversible. You can restore the original directory by copy-pasting the shortened directory to the command line and pressing TAB.
Ruby version
Powerlevel10k has several prompt segments that can display Ruby version. By default only those are enabled that display Ruby version when it has been manually overridden by some tool (e.g., rbenv or asdf).
To remove Ruby version from prompt:
Open ~/.p10k.zsh.
Search for POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_SEGMENTS.
Remove or comment out the following elements: rbenv, rvm and asdf.
Alternatively (and perhaps preferably), find out which tool is overriding Ruby version for you and remove the override if you no longer need it.
shorten dir segment to show only deepest directory
To show only last n significant path segments, you can set following in your config .zshrc, e.g n=1 means show only last folder in present working directory:
POWERLEVEL9K_SHORTEN_DIR_LENGTH=1
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/49027654
explain Git symbols
The question/exclamation mark in Git segment (vcs segment, next to path) means the number of files untracked (?) and unstaged (!). For detailed description see What do different symbols in Git status mean?
change version segment
You can change the version segment (on the right of prompt) to reflect another tool. For example to replace shown ruby version by python version replace the element within right promt elements in your config .zshrc:
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(rbenv)
by
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(pyenv)

Changing directory color with zsh + Prezto

I am using Prezto + zsh as my shell. I would like to change the color of
directories when I ls my directory. For instance, here is what I currently
have:
Obviously, this is no fun, as I’m hardly able to read my directories because the
blue is so dark. I’d like to change it to white or orange or something lighter.
This dark blue is specific only to directories. Files show up in a nice white
text. Where and what settings must I find to change this?
Update
I've seen this answer still getting attention, so here's an update. Instead of messing with individual colours as below, simply adjust the Minimum Contrast within Preferences ... -> Profiles -> Colors. I set mine to 60.
Original answer
The easier way to do this is to change the colour scheme of your terminal. For example if you are using iTerm2 on a Mac then:
Launch iTerm2
type CMD+i
In the "Colors" tab, change the setting for "Blue" (and potentially the "Bright" equivalient)
In the "General" tab, click "Copy Current Settings to Selected Profile"
If you want to revert back to the defaults you can always select a value from the "Color presets..." dropdown in the "Colors" tab.
Do the equivalent in your favourite terminal if you don't use iTerm2 on a Mac.
The answer depends on your ls. BSD ls uses the environment variable LSCOLORS; coreutils ls uses LS_COLORS instead. See your man page.
The utility module of Prezto uses dircolors (if available) to customize the colors of coreutils ls, which also comes with coreutils. So if you have coreutils, then you can use dircolors to provide actually human-readable color definitions. Read the man page of dircolors for details. Prezto reads from $HOME/.dir_colors by default, otherwise it just use the default colors defined by dircolors. You can of course specify other locations by editing on top of Prezto.
For BSD ls, there's probably no utility comparable to dircolors, so one has to manually define LSCOLORS. See the ENVIRONMENT section of the man page on its format, which should be pretty clear. An example is LSCOLORS='exfxcxdxbxGxDxabagacad', used by Prezto by default. To have it take effect, put it in runcoms, after loading Prezto's utility module.
I may be late to the party but I found the answer here: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto/issues/1539
Run in the Terminal or add to your .zshrc file
export LSCOLORS="ExGxBxDxCxEgEdxbxgxcxd"

How to get path to the vim being executed in vimscript

For example, in directory /abc the command vim def/my.txt would edit file /abc/def/my.txt.
I want to get the path /abc in my vim plugin script, but I don't know which function can do it.
I have read related articles, like
(Please add http:// to following items if you want to access, I don't have enough reputation to post more than 2 links o(╯□╰)o ):
learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/40.html
vim.wikia.com/wiki/Get_the_name_of_the_current_file
How to get path to the current vimscript being executed
But useless.
Thanks.
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I noticed at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Get_the_name_of_the_current_file, it said:
:echo #% def/my.txt
I thought I found the hope.
Because I can get /abc by minus def/my.txt from full path.
But I tested above command in my vim environment, it didn't work. It just print my.txt.
I think you're looking for the :pwd command / getcwd() function.
When you edit def/my.txt from /abc, the latter is your current directory, and all files are addressed relative to it. (Unless you have something like :set autochdir.)
For dealing with file paths, the fnamemodify() function is also very helpful; e.g. to turn filespecs into absolute ones (:p argument), or to cut off head, tail, or file extension.

How to use a template in vim

This is really a newbie question - but basically, how do I enable a template for certain filetypes.
Basically, I just want the template to insert a header of sorts, that is with some functions that I find useful, and libraries loaded etc.
I interpret
:help template
the way that I should place this in my vimrc
au BufNewFile,BufRead ~/.vim/skeleton.R
Running a R script then shows that something could happen, but apparently does not:
--- Auto-Commands ---
This may be because a template consists of commands (and there are no such in skeleton.R) - and in this case I just want it to insert a text header (which skelton.R consist of).
Sorry if this question is mind boggeling stupid ;-/
The command that you've suggested is not going to work: what this will do is run no Vim command whenever you open ~/.vim/skeleton.R
A crude way of achieving what you want would be to use:
:au BufNewFile *.R r ~/.vim/skeleton.R
This will read (:r) your file whenever a new *.R file is created. You want to avoid having BufRead in the autocmd, or it will read the skeleton file into your working file every time you open the file!
There are many plugins that add a lot more control to this process. Being the author and therefore completely biased, I'd recommend this one, but there are plenty of others listed here.
Shameless plug:
They all work in a relatively similar way, but to explain my script:
You install the plugin as described on the linked page and then create some templates in ~/.vim/templates. These templates should have the same extension as the 'target' file, so if it's a template for .R files, call it something like skeleton.R. In your .vimrc, add something like this:
let g:file_template_default = {}
let g:file_template_default['R'] = 'skeleton'
Then create your new .R file (with a filename, so save it if it's new) and enter:
:LoadFileTemplate
You can also skip the .vimrc editing and just do:
:LoadFileTemplate skeleton
See the website for more details.
Assume that your skeletons are in your ~/.vim/templates/ directory, you can put this
snippet in your vimrc file.
augroup templates
au!
" read in templates files
autocmd BufNewFile *.* silent! execute '0r ~/.vim/templates/skeleton.'.expand("<afile>:e")
augroup END
Some explanation,
BufNewFile . = each time we edit a new file
silent! execute = execute silently, no error messages if failed
0r = read file and insert content at top (0) in the new file
expand(":e") = get extension of current filename
see also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_eval_to_create_dynamic_templates
*fixed missing dot in file path
Create a templates subdirectory in your ~/.vim folder
$ mkdir -p ~/.vim/templates
Create a new file in subdirectory called R.skeleton and put in the header and/or other stuff you want to automagically load upon creating a new ".R " file.
$ vim ~/.vim/templates/R.skeleton
Then, add the following to your ~/.vimrc file, which may have been suggested in a way by "guest"
autocmd BufNewFile * silent! 0r $HOME/.vim/templates/%:e.skeleton
Have a look at my github repository for some more details and other options.
It's just a trick I used to use .
It's cheap but If you ain't know nothing about vim and it's commands it's easy to handle.
make a directory like this :
~/.vim/templates/barney.cpp
and as you konw barney.cpp should be your template code .
then add a function like ForUncleBarney() to end of your .vimrc file located in ~/.vimrc
it should be like
function ForBarneyStinson()
:read ~/.vim/templates/barney.cpp
endfunction
then just use this command in vim
:call ForBarneyStinson()
then you see your template
as an example I already have two templates for .cpp files
:call ForBarney()
:call ACM()
sorry said too much,
Coding's awesome ! :)
Also take a look at https://github.com/aperezdc/vim-template.git.
I use it and have contributed some patches to it and would argue its relatively full featured.
What about using the snipmate plugin? See here
There exist many template-file expanders -- you'll also find there explanations on how to implement a rudimentary template-file expander.
For my part, I'm maintaining the fork of muTemplate. For a simple start, just drop a {ft}.template file into {rtp}/template/. If you want to use any (viml) variable or expression, just do. You can even put vim code (and now even functions) into the template-file if you wish. Several smart decisions are already implemented for C++ and vim files.

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