http://www.zshwiki.org/home/ 2010-09-08T05:37:29+02:00 http://www.zshwiki.org/home/ http://www.zshwiki.org/home/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-01-05T09:20:47+02:00 http://www.zshwiki.org/home/config/files?rev=1262679647 This question comes up quite often: "What do all those config files do? When are they run?" Okay, it's described in the manpage (/STARTUP FILES) and in the FAQ (q.3.2), but I guess, I'll quickly put a page in the wiki, as well, just to make sure people can find the information. text/html 2010-01-05T09:20:47+02:00 http://www.zshwiki.org/home/config/functions?rev=1262679647 In zsh, a function can be kept in a file, like this: echo "Hello World." Say, that's a file called hello somewhere in your $fpath. In that case you can autoload hello and use a function called hello, which will indeed print out "Hello World.". And that's the whole trick. text/html 2010-06-16T07:11:07+02:00 http://www.zshwiki.org/home/config/prompt?rev=1276665067 Actually, how to setup zsh's prompt is quite accurately described in the manual (PROMPT EXPANSION). Colors However, let's look at one thing a *lot* of people get wrong when figuring out a custom prompt for the first time. First, when you want to use colors, use the hashes provided by the colors function described in zshcontrib(1) (here in the manual on the web), unless you know want you are doing and you need something else (like colors not covered by that function). text/html 2010-01-05T09:20:47+02:00 http://www.zshwiki.org/home/config/start?rev=1262679647 A section about configuration mechanisms (setopt, $parameters, zstyle etc.) and Startup/Shutdown Files. zstyle ':completion:*' path /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt