A small thing I did recently that has made things a tiny bit easier on myself is to use ZSH's Vi mode. I spend most of my time at work in various vim sessions with several shells open for performing various tasks (e.g. One specifically for debugging and that's all I do in it, another for file management, etc). It always felt a bit jarring to go from vim to one of my shells and have to use different key bindings for tasks. Well, with Vi mode a lot of that is alleviated and it's made a small improvement to my productivity as I don't have to think as much about key bindings.

Since it will probably come up, here's what's in my ~/.zshrc to distinguish modes at the prompt:


The result looks like the following.

CMD Mode:

INS Mode: