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-A handful of functions, auto-complete helpers, and stuff that makes you shout...
-
+oh-my-zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and few things that make you shout...
bq. "OH MY ZSHELL!"
@@ -26,17 +25,20 @@ h3. The manual way
@git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh@
-2. Create a new zsh config by copying the zsh template we've provided.
+2. *OPTIONAL* Backup your existing ~/.zshrc file
+
+ @cp ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.orig@
- *NOTE*: If you already have a ~/.zshrc file, you should back it up. @cp ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.orig@ in case you want to go back to your original settings.
+3. Create a new zsh config by copying the zsh template we've provided.
@cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc@
-3. Set zsh as your default shell:
+
+4. Set zsh as your default shell:
@chsh -s /bin/zsh@
-4. Start / restart zsh (open a new terminal is easy enough...)
+5. Start / restart zsh (open a new terminal is easy enough...)
h3. Problems?
@@ -60,6 +62,17 @@ If you want to override any of the default behavior, just add a new file (ending
If you have many functions which go well together you can put them as a *.plugin.zsh file in the @custom/plugins/@ directory and then enable this plugin.
If you would like to override the functionality of a plugin distributed with oh-my-zsh, create a plugin of the same name in the @custom/plugins/@ directory and it will be loaded instead of the one in @plugins/@.
+h3. Updates
+
+By default you will be prompted to check for updates. If you would like oh-my-zsh to automatically update itself without prompting you, set the following in your ~/.zshrc
+
+@DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT=true@
+
+To disable updates entirely, put this in your ~/.zshrc
+
+@DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE=true@
+
+To upgrade directly from the command line, just run @upgrade_oh_my_zsh@
h3. Uninstalling
@@ -73,9 +86,7 @@ h3. (Don't) Send us your theme! (for now)
-I'm hoping to collect a bunch of themes for our command prompts. You can see existing ones in the @themes/@ directory.-
-We have enough themes for the time being. Please fork the project and add on in there, you can let people know how to grab it from there.
-
-
+We have enough themes for the time being. Please fork the project and add on in there, you can let people know how to grab it from there.
h2. Contributors