PoshPlus

PoshPlus is a tool that sets up a beautiful and generally useful development environment for powershell. It borrows from Oh-My-Zsh and implements some of its features.

Features

• Provides a beautiful terminal experience
• Comes with the Chocolatey package manager
• Installs any number of packages you give the install script
• Setups a profile.ps1 with sane defaults and a profile.local.ps1 where you can set your own preferences
• Up arrow searches through command history
• Provides all of the over 100 git aliases available in oh-my-zsh
  • There is also a function built in to help discover the git aliases called howto
  • E.g. howto commit will list every alias using a git commit

Installation

• Set your execution policy to RemoteSigned:
  • Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
• Run ./install.ps1
  • for more information on what you can install with the install script, read the section below
• Open ConEmu - the new terminal that comes installed
• In the startup menu screen:
  • Set the startup shell to Powershell Admin
  • Set the color scheme to Solarized
• Once ConEmu starts, open the settings and find the Main Console Font and Alternative Console Font settings
  • Change both of them to Meslo LG M for Powerline
  • This font comes installed with the installation script
  • If you do not change the font, the powerline symbols will render as a question marks

What Can I Install with the Install Script?

The install script will install any number of chocolatey packages you need. A few packages are given aliases in the script to make them more intuitive to use than their chocolatey names. For example, intellij will install the intellijidea-ultimate chocolatey package.

Example Installation

./install intellij java10 vscode node9

Other examples of packages you can install are:

• atom
• vim
• python
• eclipse
• virtualbox
• vagrant
• Any of the packages here by just giving the name of the package.