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Install Common Packages#

For Red Hat based systems:

sudo dnf install -y git gcc gcc-c++ llvm clang lldb make cmake tmux htop btop zsh neovim curl

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For Arch based systems:

sudo pacman -Syu git gcc llvm clang lldb make cmake tmux htop btop zsh neovim curl

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For Debian based systems:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git gcc g++ llvm clang lldb make cmake tmux htop btop zsh neovim curl

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Set Up ZSH#

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://install.ohmyz.sh/)"

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This command will automatically install oh-my-zsh and set zsh as the default shell. After these are done, you will get into a zsh session. Then install the zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

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Next, edit the ~/.zshrc file:

plugins=(
  git
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
)

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On my own opinion, I will also change the theme to candy and then set the HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE option to true:

ZSH_THEME="candy"
HYPHEN_INSENSITIVE="true"

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I like the most simple locale settings, so I will also change locale to C.UTF-8. If this is my own device. If this machine is not mine, I will set this in my ~/.zshrc:

export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8

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If this is my own physical device, I will add my GPG keys, and using GPG keys to sign, authenticate and encrypt needs passwords. So I will set the GPG_TTY environment to allow pinentry to work properly with tmux and zsh in the terminal, so that GPG can prompt for the password in the terminal. Add this line to my ~/.zshrc to set the GPG_TTY environment variable:

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

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TMUX Configuration#

You can see the TMUX help document by pressing Ctrl + B (abbrev. C-b) and then ?.

By default, TMUX have no mouse support. You can enable it temporarily by pressing C-b and then : to enter the command mode, then type set -g mouse on and press Enter.

If you want to enable mouse support permanently, you can add the following line to your ~/.tmux.conf:

set -g mouse on

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