YADR for Dummies

I spend a half of my life in the terminal window (another half is being wasted even sillier.) A couple of years ago I switched to zsh , then I met oh-my-zsh , I even wrote my own theme for it, with blackjack and battery charge indicator . From time to time I tuned the theme up, played with newly investigated vim tricks etc. I switched from oh-my-zsh to prezto , but I anyway felt myself a little bit deprived.

Accidentally I stumbled upon YADR . The project headline states “YADR is the best vim, git, zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen.” And you know what?—That’s true. Try it youself and I swear you never decide to turn back to your crude homebred dotfiles.

An installation is as easy (you already have ruby installed, haven’t you?) as:

git clone https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles ~/.yadr
cd ~/.yadr && rake install

The only polish required (in my opinion) is the proper theme. So, here we go. I teached the pretty Agnoster theme to show proper right prompt with current gemset, current ruby version etc. If you are not as to Ruby as me, you’ll find a better application for it.

To install the theme you’ll need:

• install a Powerline-patched font for the theme special symbols to render correctly
• grab the theme file and put in into ~/.zsh.prompts/prompt_mudasobwa_setup
• put the following three lines in the end of your ~/.zshrc file:

  $ autoload -Uz promptinit
  $ promptinit
  $ prompt mudasobwa

• restart zsh

The screenshots below show only the visual effectiveness of the theme; the cymes is in details. Everyone is to be exalted about it’s power and scared kinda “why didn’t I switched to it yesterday.”

Inside git branch:

With background jobs (the blue gear on the left) and non-zero exit status from the previously run command:

VIM status line: