A good terminal tool can speed up your workflow, and make your life much easier. Here I give a complete tutorial of installing the kitty terminal, and configuring the fish shell and vifm manager on mac.
- kitty
(1) install kitty on mac
>> curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin
(2) set kitty as the default terminal tool
To set kitty as the default application, you need to install a plug-in called “RCDefaultApp.prefPane”. You can download it from my github repository.
>> git clone https://github.com/JakeJing/kittyconfig.git
>> sudo mv kittyconfig/RCDefaultApp.prefPane /Library/PreferencePanes/
This will add an icon of “default apps” in your system preferences, and allow you to set the default terminal tools in this way (system preferences — default Apps — click the “default Apps” — URLS — x-man-page — set the default application as “kitty”).
(3) add shortcut (shift-cmd-1) to open a new kitty terminal window
You can also create a keyboard shortcut to open a new terminal window in the current folder by setting System Preferences — Keyboard — Shortcuts — Services — New kitty wondow here. I am using the keybinding (shift-cmd-1) for open a…