I agree, though I'd probably suggest working from a simple zshrc for starters ("man zshall" is also your friend). I just spent a bit of time yesterday tweaking

I agree, though I'd probably suggest working from a simple zshrc for starters ("man zshall" is also your friend). I just spent a bit of time yesterday tweaking information in my prompt just so: http://imgur.com/OSEB3 http://imgur.com/OSEB3 And it's made a huge quality of life difference to what I had before. Worth spending a bit of time making your shell environment optimized for yourself though, and not just copying someone else's setup, in my opinion. You spend a lot of time there, programming for UNIX, why not make it rock?