Customize Your Mac Terminal
Learn how to personalize your Mac terminal in 5 simple steps.
Customizing your terminal can simplify a lot of your tasks, and set you up with basic shortcuts that will save you from some headaches, especially if you spend a lot of time using CLIs. We can break down this process into 5 major steps: Picking a terminal program, adding terminal plugins, picking a shell program, adding shell plugins, and configuring your terminal editor. This article will walk you through each of the steps in detail.
- Pick a terminal program: hyper.js 🤖
Each user is free to choose their favorite terminal software since each program has its own pros and cons. However, they generally do not differ too much, except for plugins and such. My favorite terminal interface is the hyper terminal. It is very customizable and allows us to easily add powerful plugins (which will be covered in part 2). To install hyper, navigate to the website and click the download button. Follow the instructions on the screen to finalize the installation of hyper.
