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Trevor
Trevor

Reputation: 1414

Why do you need to source .zshrc for every new shell in iTerm?

I've used Iterm2 with zsh everyday for the past 3 years, but I got a new computer and had to set it up again. The problem is that when I run ~/.zshrc it works fine, but I have to do it on every new terminal window I open. Not a good experience.

I noticed that I don't have any bashrc, bash_profile, or profile (dot)files on my new machine.

Here's the code in ~/.zshrc:

export ZSH=/Users/healy/.oh-my-zsh
plugins=(
  git
)
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"
source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
DEFAULT_USER=healy

Again, it works perfectly (and as expected), but only after I run the source command, and that shouldn't be the case.

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Upvotes: 44

Views: 191069

Answers (7)

redeemefy
redeemefy

Reputation: 4849

In my case I'm using the default Mac terminal. I'm in the OSX Sonoma which has zsh as the default shell. To fix the autocomplete I:

  1. CMD+,
  2. Click Profile at the top menu
  3. Click the Shell submenu
  4. Check the box [X] Run command: source ~/.zshrc
  5. Quick Terminal and relaunch

Probably the Mac default zsh is not loading .oh-my-zsh? Is there a way to tell the default zsh to use .oh-my-zsh when terminal opens? Is my solution the way of doing this?

Thoughts?

Upvotes: 1

enharmonic
enharmonic

Reputation: 2080

On 11.2.1 with Terminal 2.11, assuming you have already created .zshrc in your home directory, launch Terminal and select Terminal >> Preferences >> Profiles >> Shell

Under "Startup" check "Run command:" and input source ~/.zshrc

Upvotes: 1

Romi Aujla
Romi Aujla

Reputation: 93

I had the same issue and changing the Shells Open with option fixed this for me.

To get here:

  • Open Preferences for Terminal
  • Select the General Tab
  • Change Sells open with from Default login shell to Command (complete path) with the /bin/zsh in the input box.

Screeshot:

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Upvotes: 6

iplus26
iplus26

Reputation: 2637

In my case, oh-my-zsh is not loaded because the line was comment out.

# IT'S WRONG! NEED TO UNCOMMENT
# export ZSH=/Users/$(whoami)/.oh-my-zsh

Though this question is not due to the same "comment out" obviously, I came to a conclusion that, if you need to source ~/.zshrc every time opening a shell instance, there should be some issue with your .zshrc, and check oh-my-zsh and antigen(maybe) work fine.

Upvotes: 1

wuhaiwei
wuhaiwei

Reputation: 101

for me,It works like this. Profiles 》Open Profiles 》Select “Edit Profiles” 》Profiles 》General and put "source ~/.zsh" into Send text at start textfield.

Upvotes: -1

kenji
kenji

Reputation: 266

Make sure your export/source are added after the plugins in your zshrc, as stated in this post: oh-my-zsh config file not loading

Upvotes: 25

Vignesh Raja
Vignesh Raja

Reputation: 8751

On starting a new shell just run the command source ~/.zshrc by configuring in the

Preferences -> Profiles -> Select Default Profile(default profile will be starred) -> General -> Command -> Select Login Shell -> Send text at start:

Enter the value source ~/.zshrc.

You may add source ~/.zshrc; clear in case you need to clear the screen contents after executing the command.

Upvotes: 22

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