I never knew the real joy of using the terminal until my friend Brian turned me on to ZShell. Ever since, I’ve customized my shell and my terminal workflow to make navigating and handling files and paths as simple as possible.

In my Github account I’ve posted my somewhat ridiculous dotfile configuration. There you’ll find:

• My aliases and binding for things like zshell, screen, vim and git
• the ridiculous prompt i use that’s setup to display current host, directory, git branch and the status of the working copy (is it ahead/behind the remote repo, if there are any uncommitted changes)
• a rake task to install it all