--- title: Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer | daily.dev description: Oh my zsh allows you to play around with a whole host of plugins by simply updating a list in your .zshrc file. The instant prompt shows you the prompt even if... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-tips-to-make-you-a-2x-developer-stxcsdznj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer | daily.dev og:description: Oh my zsh allows you to play around with a whole host of plugins by simply updating a list in your .zshrc file. The instant prompt shows you the prompt even if... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-tips-to-make-you-a-2x-developer-stxcsdznj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/STXCsdznJ.png og:image:alt: Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · [@udaraw](https://daily.dev/udaraw) · 7 min read · 38 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Oh my zsh allows you to play around with a whole host of plugins by simply updating a list in your .zshrc file. The instant prompt shows you the prompt even if zsh is loading stuff in the background so that you can start typing your next command. With fzf you type ctrl+r once and type anything; it will fuzzy find what you’re looking for and you just pick from a list. The git layer adds a convenience for git with a bunch of shortcuts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 2 upvotes > fzf — Fuzzy find everything is really cool! **@dharshan\_webdev** · 1 upvotes > i love it. **@theanamhossain** · 1 upvotes > Awesome. Thanks for sharing :) **@thedeanmachine** · 1 upvotes > Perfect timing, just today had to use the terminal for the first time in 6 months. > Good stuff. **@josetorres\_1** · 0 upvotes > great! --- Tags: [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-tips-to-make-you-a-2x-developer-stxcsdznj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Terminal tips to make you a 2x developer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-tips-to-make-you-a-2x-developer-stxcsdznj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/terminal-tips-to-make-you-a-2x-developer-stxcsdznj"},"datePublished":"2020-11-16T04:37:17.203Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Oh my zsh allows you to play around with a whole host of plugins by simply updating a list in your .zshrc file. 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Thanks for sharing :)","datePublished":"2020-11-16T09:21:40.911Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/STXCsdznJ#c-TkjUKkWR4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Md. 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