Terminal: iTerm2

For personal preference, I updated my terminal on my Macbook to iTerm2.

Homebrew

Installing homebrew saves a lot of time in the future for installing certain libraries and frameworks. Install instructions

In your terminal type:

After it is installed you do not need to worry about it until you come across certain instructions when exploring new libraries that give you different way to install it. In these cases always look to see if they give instructions on how to do it with Homebrew, it usually has the words "brew" in the terminal input code.

Oh My Zsh: Organizing Code Display

In order to be able to follow my work in a terminal more clearly, I decided to setup "Oh My Zsh", which provides colour and line separation within the terminal

Install on terminal:

Open in text editor on terminal: Edit the: I am currently working with the “refined” theme.

If you ever need to update the current working model in the terminal type:

Sublime Text Editor

From the article listed previously in the Versus section, I had chosen to download Sublime Text as it had the easiest read layout for me personally. To download, go to the Sublime website.
FYI: “Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.”

Under Sublime Text editor there are packages you can add to make your coding experience better. In the tabs below, I have listed the ones I use, this does not mean you have to use these or limit yourself to just these.

Package Control

Terminus

• This one is the first one that should be installed because it allows you to install/update packages seamlessly. On a Macbook all you have to do to install it is hit “cmd - shift - p” this will have a drop down menu pop up. Select install package control.
  
  The website for package control has all the packages you can use and it has a description of each one.

• I wanted to have a terminal in my code editor, so I found “Terminus”. Like before hit "cmd - shift - p” and from the drop down menu select “Package Control: Install Package” then type “Terminus”. Once you select it, it will install.
  
  Now to set it up to pop-up you have to edit some code. As the picture shown below, go to “Preference → Package Settings → Terminus → Key Bindings”.

  Once you select “Key Bindings” you will see something as follows: Now on the second (right) screen, you can add code to edit how the terminal works. On the package description website (linked above), there are code suggestions. The first two they suggest are:
  • toggle terminal panel

    [
    

    {
    

    "keys": ["alt+`"], "command": "toggle_terminus_panel"
    

    }
    

    ]
    

  • open a terminal view at current file directory

    [
    

    {
    

    "keys": ["ctrl+alt+t"], "command": "terminus_open", "args": {
    

    "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"

    }

    }
    

    ]
    

  I wanted to toggle the terminal panel but also have it open in the current file directory, so I combined the code:

  [
  

  {
  

  "keys": ["alt+`"], "command": "toggle_terminus_panel", "args": {
  

  "cwd": "${file_path:${folder}}"

  }

  }
  

  ]