First run

Now that zsh is on your system, how about we take it for a spin? Go ahead and open your terminal emulator of choice and call the following command:

$ zsh

Like many other applications these days, zsh has a first-run wizard (bear with me, it almost resembles one). This is one of those magic creatures whose sole purpose is to help us configure our tools on a swift swoop of questions and decision making. We'll skip the new user configuration this time, but feel free to choose whatever method works best for you, taking the question-by-question approach or just pressing Q on your keyboard to abort the operation. Just remember that the newuser module is called from <zshInstallFolder>/Functions/Newuser/zsh-newuser-install or <zshInstallFolder>/functions/zsh-newuser-install ...

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