How to get the most out of your Terminal

How to get the most out of your Terminal | by Reagan McFarland | Medium

the recipe is basically three steps:

1. a “modern” terminal. He suggest Alacritty becuase is fast. Like really fast. This is because it uses OpenGL to offload some of the processing to your GPU, a feature very few terminal emulators have. I’m quite satisfied by Gnome Terminal, thanks.
2. Then he suggests
   1. Starship is a cross-shell prompt that not only looks great out of the box, but has a tremendous amount of features. Fine, I’ll try it
   2. DistroTube’s Shell Color Scripts
3. He tells us to use shell configuration files (aka ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile). I discovered them many years ago
4. SpaceVim, a “Modern Vim distribution”. He says it is optional. It seems great. I’ll surely try it