Setup starship, zsh suggestions and syntax highlight for your codespaces.

setup-zsh-in-codespaces.md

Setup ZSH

This gist will guide you through to setup starship along with zsh suggestions and zsh syntax highlight for your codespaces.

Table of Contents

• Setup Starship
• Install Auto Suggestions
• Install ZSH Syntax Highlighting

Setup Starship

This is an optional package if you want to beautify your terminal. Else you can also use any other ZSH themes.

Install starship

You cannot install starship in ZSH shell at the time of writing this. You can switch to bash.

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

Setup the config in ZSH file

echo "eval \"\$(starship init zsh)\"" >> ${ZSOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

Install ZSH Auto Suggestions

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions

You can change the path to anything you want. Here we use ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions

2. Add the invoke script to ZSH config

echo "source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh" >> ${ZSOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

Install ZSH Syntax Highlighting

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting

2. Add the invoke script to ZSH config

echo "source ~/.zsh/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

Note: If you see a Systemd in the terminal and you want to remove it. Then do:

mkdir -p ~/.config && printf "[container]\ndisabled = true" >> ~/.config/starship.toml

Voila! You are ready to use ZSH with Starship and ZSH Auto Suggestions and Syntax Highlighting.

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Thank you! Works like a charm.