TERM TOOLS

Terminal config and plugins, focused around zsh, vim, and tmux. Uses Solarized color scheme throughout.

SCREENSHOTS

Using vim

Using zsh

FEATURES

• Installs and configures solarized, zsh, oh-my-zsh, tmux
• Syntax highlighting in less
• Autocomplete in Python shell
• Shortcuts for git (see git lg, git st, git df, etc.)
• Improved ~/.vimrc key mappings
• Vim plugins: ack autopep8 closetag coffee-script ctrlp easymotion fswitch fugitive gitignore javascript jedi latex less matchit nerdcommenter nerdtree rainbow-parentheses seek showmarks signify solarized startify supertab surround syntastic tabman tagbar undotree vimux vimux-pyutils yankstack
• Custom vim scripts: improved text-wrapping with Q, delete-trailing-whitespace, and more
• Smart ls after cd: suppressed if ls takes more than 1 second
• Unified dark/light color scheme toggle for vim and tmux
• Python linting tools installed via pipx (flake8, pylint, isort, etc.)

INSTALLATION

Works on macOS (Homebrew) and Linux (apt-get, dnf).

1. Clone:

    cd $HOME
    git clone https://github.com/seanbell/term-tools.git
   

2. Back up and remove any existing ~/.zshrc, ~/.vimrc, ~/.gvimrc, ~/.vim, and ~/.tmux.conf.

3. Install:

    cd ~/term-tools
    bash install.sh
   

   The script will ask whether to install each component. Run with -f to overwrite existing config files.

4. Set zsh as your default shell (if the installer didn't do it):

    chsh -s $(which zsh)    # macOS
    sudo chsh $USER -s /bin/zsh  # Linux
   

5. Restart your terminal.

Remote server install

curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/seanbell/term-tools/main/install.sh | bash

This clones to ~/term-tools and runs the installer.

DARK / LIGHT MODE

Vim and tmux share a Solarized dark/light toggle via ~/.term-light:

touch ~/.term-light   # switch to light mode
rm ~/.term-light      # switch to dark mode

After toggling:

• vim: reopen or run :source ~/.vimrc (also toggle live with F6)
• tmux: reload config with C-a g

USAGE

• Vim commands are detailed in config/vimrc (organized by fold sections)
• tmux prefix is C-a (not the default C-b — see config/tmux.conf for all keybindings)
• Git aliases: git lg (log graph), git st, git df, git co, etc.

TROUBLESHOOTING

• Typing is slow in large directories — zsh-syntax-highlighting looks at files in the current directory. Remove zsh-syntax-highlighting from the plugins=( ... ) line in ~/.zshrc to fix.

• Different keybindings for shell vs editor — add this to ~/.zshrc and ~/.bashrc (before the line that sources shrc.sh):

   export EDITOR="vim"
   export TERM_EDITOR="emacs"
  

• Python editing hangs — jedi can be slow. Enter paste mode with F2.

PLUGIN CHANGES (2026 modernization)

• vim-powerline removed (deprecated by author) — status line uses vim's built-in laststatus=2. Consider vim-airline if you want a fancy status line.
• gundo removed (requires Python 2) — replaced with undotree (<leader>u still works).
• Submodule URLs updated for repos that moved to new GitHub orgs (scrooloose → preservim, Lokaltog → easymotion, kien → ctrlpvim, etc.)
• Python tools installed via pipx instead of sudo pip install.
• Fugitive commands updated: Gstatus → Git, Gblame → Git blame, etc.