Robby on Rails: Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updaterthoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect tag:www.robbyonrails.com,2005:TypoTypo2009-09-30T21:22:11-04:00Robby Russellurn:uuid:3239e28b-21e7-4a68-8859-aa6b8702976a2009-09-30T21:21:00-04:002009-09-30T21:22:11-04:00Oh My Zsh gets an auto-updater<p>I wanted to publically thank everyone for helping me get Oh My Zsh out there and <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/">continue to improve it</a>. Many of us spend a lot of time in our terminals throughout the day and I firmly believe that having a well-working shell is nearly as important as having a well-working texteditor.</p>
<p>While Oh My Zsh isn’t a large project, it is my attempt to share what I’ve learned about using zsh with others… but honestly, my goal is to learn from you. I don’t have a lot of time to really dive into the deepend of the zsh-pool so am relying on others to share their tricks, hacks, functions, themes, etc. So, I thought that if I created a basic framework with outlined some conventions so that others could contribute, that perhaps I’d end up with a kickass shell.</p>
<p>So far… Oh My Zsh has been <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/network">forked on github 25 times</a> and is being <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/watchers">watched by over 100 people</a>.</p>
<p>Last week, I pushed out an update that introduces an auto-update feature. I’m quite keen of desktop applications that can auto-update themselves, so our initial version of this feature will ask you no more than once a week if you want to check for updates. This means that as we continue to extend and improve Oh My Zsh, you can keep up-to-date.</p>
<div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://skitch.com/robbyrussell/nbm23/terminal-zsh"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091001-gsgeh75peiebfs8y6146xuu7r8.preview.jpg" alt="Terminal 2014 zsh" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080">Uploaded with <a href="http://plasq.com/">plasq</a>’s <a href="http://skitch.com">Skitch</a>!</span></div>
<p>It’s the beginning of a new month… are you still using Bash? Perhaps you’re using your own zsh configuration but want to see what else zsh can offer you? I invite you to install Oh My Zsh today. :-)</p>
<p>Just run this in your terminal and you’ll get setup. Don’t worry… you won’t lose your existing configuration. :-)</p>
<p><code>wget http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh</code></p>
<p>For more infromation, visit <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/">http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/</a></p><p>I wanted to publically thank everyone for helping me get Oh My Zsh out there and <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/">continue to improve it</a>. Many of us spend a lot of time in our terminals throughout the day and I firmly believe that having a well-working shell is nearly as important as having a well-working texteditor.</p>
<p>While Oh My Zsh isn’t a large project, it is my attempt to share what I’ve learned about using zsh with others… but honestly, my goal is to learn from you. I don’t have a lot of time to really dive into the deepend of the zsh-pool so am relying on others to share their tricks, hacks, functions, themes, etc. So, I thought that if I created a basic framework with outlined some conventions so that others could contribute, that perhaps I’d end up with a kickass shell.</p>
<p>So far… Oh My Zsh has been <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/network">forked on github 25 times</a> and is being <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/watchers">watched by over 100 people</a>.</p>
<p>Last week, I pushed out an update that introduces an auto-update feature. I’m quite keen of desktop applications that can auto-update themselves, so our initial version of this feature will ask you no more than once a week if you want to check for updates. This means that as we continue to extend and improve Oh My Zsh, you can keep up-to-date.</p>
<div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://skitch.com/robbyrussell/nbm23/terminal-zsh"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091001-gsgeh75peiebfs8y6146xuu7r8.preview.jpg" alt="Terminal 2014 zsh" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080">Uploaded with <a href="http://plasq.com/">plasq</a>’s <a href="http://skitch.com">Skitch</a>!</span></div>
<p>It’s the beginning of a new month… are you still using Bash? Perhaps you’re using your own zsh configuration but want to see what else zsh can offer you? I invite you to install Oh My Zsh today. :-)</p>
<p>Just run this in your terminal and you’ll get setup. Don’t worry… you won’t lose your existing configuration. :-)</p>
<p><code>wget http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh</code></p>
<p>For more infromation, visit <a href="http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/">http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/</a></p>