setting up a cool dev environment on osx

what we’ll do

we’ll use the following stuff:

1. homebrew as a package manager to install stuff
2. fish as a friendlier terminal shell to replace bash

how we’ll do it

install homebrew

read the instructions on homebrew’s website to install homebrew.

Pay attention to the terminal output, and do anything it says.

install fish

run brew doctor, brew update, and brew upgrade if you haven’t already.

run brew install fish to install fish.

start using fish

(see https://gist.github.com/amonks/9e1227c79a40cd474a6b/)

A “non-standard shell” is a shell that’s not listed in /etc/shells. So, use where <shell> to find shell path, and add it to /etc/shells.

Then chsh -s <shell-path>