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On my new mac machine, I could not do autocomplete for Git when I hit Tab.

So I thought to modify the terminal and found certain things on this link.

I may have messed when I installed iTerm2, Oh-My-ZSH, and Solarised Dark. So now I have nice looking terminal and git autocompletion works.

But in the terminal, the user name, machine name etc does not appear, like it is the in above link.

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The colour scheme is also not great.

Can someone please help me, possibly step-by-step, on how to show these things like in this image enter image description here

I am very new to Mac and please assume that I know very little about how it works.

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Everything you're asking has more to do with the shell than with iTerm. There are numerous tutorials on how to set up your PROMPT variable (I use a modified version of this one). Since you're using Oh-my-zsh, try looking through the themes page. There are a variety of styles available (I began with the af-magic prompt). Once you find a prompt you like, feel free to copy the source from the .oh-my-zsh/themes folder to .oh-my-zsh/custom/themes and modify the custom version. Details on custom plugins and themes are available here.

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    Note that Oh-my-zsh will look in custom/ and custom/themes/ for files named $ZSH_THEME.zsh-theme if you set the ZSH_THEME variable in your .zshrc, so you could name a theme af-magic_mod.zsh-theme, place it in the custom folder, and set your theme to ZSH_THEME=af-magic_mod, just the same way you'd set any of the included themes.
    – Dustin Wheeler
    Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 21:38
  • This worked just like I wanted. But I did not have to copy or move any theme files. All I did was open /zshrc file and set the theme to ZSH_THEME = ys.
    – chintan s
    Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 22:01

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