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Shell on Windows

Running oh-my-zsh on top of git´s SDK for Windows has been a great experience for me.

It´s faster than WSL at this point, this combination allows me to enjoy a linux terminal without dealing with WSL

I am satisfied with it as it is mostly a seamless experience for a java developer.

.zshrc

# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH. # export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH # Path to your oh-my-zsh installation. export ZSH="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh" # Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will # load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case, # to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME # See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell" # Set list of themes to pick from when loading at random # Setting this variable when ZSH_THEME=random will cause zsh to load # a theme from this variable instead of looking in $ZSH/themes/ # If set to an empty array, this variable will have no effect. # ZSH_THEME_RANDOM_CANDIDATES=( "robbyrussell" "agnoster" ) # Uncomment the following line to use case-sensitive completion. # CASE_SENSITIVE="true" # Uncomment the following line to use hyphen-insensitive completion. # Case-sensitive completion must be off. _ and - will be interchangeable. # HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true" # Uncomment one of the following lines to change the auto-update behavior # zstyle ':omz:update' mode disabled # disable automatic updates # zstyle ':omz:update' mode auto # update automatically without asking # zstyle ':omz:update' mode reminder # just remind me to update when it's time # Uncomment the following line to change how often to auto-update (in days). # zstyle ':omz:update' frequency 13 # Uncomment the following line if pasting URLs and other text is messed up. # DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS="true" # Uncomment the following line to disable colors in ls. # DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true" # Uncomment the following line to disable auto-setting terminal title. # DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true" # Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction. # ENABLE_CORRECTION="true" # Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion. # You can also set it to another string to have that shown instead of the default red dots. # e.g. COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="%F{yellow}waiting...%f" # Caution: this setting can cause issues with multiline prompts in zsh < 5.7.1 (see #5765) # COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true" # Uncomment the following line if you want to disable marking untracked files # under VCS as dirty. This makes repository status check for large repositories # much, much faster. # DISABLE_UNTRACKED_FILES_DIRTY="true" # Uncomment the following line if you want to change the command execution time # stamp shown in the history command output. # You can set one of the optional three formats: # "mm/dd/yyyy"|"dd.mm.yyyy"|"yyyy-mm-dd" # or set a custom format using the strftime function format specifications, # see 'man strftime' for details. # HIST_STAMPS="mm/dd/yyyy" # Would you like to use another custom folder than $ZSH/custom? # ZSH_CUSTOM=/path/to/new-custom-folder # Which plugins would you like to load? # Standard plugins can be found in $ZSH/plugins/ # Custom plugins may be added to $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/ # Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse) # Add wisely, as too many plugins slow down shell startup. plugins=( git brew common-aliases node npm rand-quote sudo yarn z colored-man-pages colorize cp zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-autosuggestions ) source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh # User configuration # export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:$MANPATH" # You may need to manually set your language environment # export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 # Preferred editor for local and remote sessions # if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then # export EDITOR='vim' # else # export EDITOR='mvim' # fi # Compilation flags # export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" # Set personal aliases, overriding those provided by oh-my-zsh libs, # plugins, and themes. Aliases can be placed here, though oh-my-zsh # users are encouraged to define aliases within the ZSH_CUSTOM folder. # For a full list of active aliases, run `alias`. # # Example aliases # alias zshconfig="mate ~/.zshrc" # alias ohmyzsh="mate ~/.oh-my-zsh" alias j11="export JAVA_HOME=\"C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-11.0.19.7-hotspot\"" alias j17="export JAVA_HOME=\"C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-17.0.7.7-hotspot\"" alias graalvm="export JAVA_HOME=\"C:\Program Files\GraalVM\graalvm-community-openjdk-21+35.1\"" alias mvnia="mvn -s /c/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/maven/apache-maven-3.9.2/conf/settings-ia.xml "

To enable zsh on Git for Windows SDK

  1. install zsh via PacMan

  2. install oh-my-zsh the same way you would on linux

  3. change the login shell, line 6:

C:\git-sdk-64\msys2_shell.cmd

set "LOGINSHELL=zsh"
Last modified: 12 March 2024