{"id":241,"date":"2019-06-05T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/?p=241"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T09:38:41","slug":"zsh-and-oh-my-zsh-on-cygwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowlerblue.com\/site\/zsh-and-oh-my-zsh-on-cygwin\/","title":{"rendered":"zsh and oh-my-zsh on Cygwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I prefer to do things on the command line rather than click around on a UI (I type much faster than I can use a mouse). And I absolutely love the zsh<\/a><\/code> and oh-my-zsh<\/a><\/code> combination for my terminal. I mostly use a Mac (with iTerm2<\/a><\/code>) and various flavours of Linux – all of which are really straight forward to set up. But sometimes I have to use Windows – and to keep to a Unix style shell (mostly because I know the commands much better), I use Cygwin<\/a><\/code> as a shell when on Windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some instructions out there on getting zsh<\/code> and oh-my-zsh<\/code> set up on Cygwin<\/code>, but I’ve always found that I need to combine a few of them to get the right setup, and I don’t do it often enough to remember. So I’m writing it down here – mostly for myself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cygwin setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Start with a standard Cygwin installation – and I’m assuming you use the standard shortcut to start a shell that uses mintty.exe<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use the standard Cygwin installer to install the latest versions of the following packages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n