Zsh Shell rocks! Try this Bash alternative!

In contrast to the wide-spread Bash Shell which is licensed under the viral copyleft GPL, the Zsh Shell is licensed under a MIT/BSD-like license. Also the Z Shell has more advanced features than the Bash and a better overall usability.

For a quick an convenient start, put these settings:

## Go completion

# gc

prefixes=(5 6 8)

for p in $prefixes; do

compctl -g "*.${p}" ${p}l

compctl -g "*.go" ${p}g

done

# standard go tools

compctl -g "*.go" gofmt

# gccgo

compctl -g "*.go" gccgo

##

## dev variables

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

# Lines configured by zsh-newuser-install

HISTFILE=~/.histfile

HISTSIZE=1000

SAVEHIST=1000

setopt appendhistory autocd beep extendedglob nomatch notify

bindkey -e

# End of lines configured by zsh-newuser-install

# The following lines were added by compinstall

zstyle :compinstall filename '/Users/alex/.zshrc'

autoload -Uz compinit

compinit

# End of lines added by compinstall

autoload -U colors && colors

PS1="%m:%{$fg[green]%}%~ %{$reset_color%}% "

export CLICOLOR=1

## external file for aliases

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then

    . ~/.bash_aliases

fi

into your ~/.zshrc file, which I'm also using on my Mac.

I was happily using this Bash alternative a few years ago before Linux screwed up my backup...