Pretty PowerShell (7xmohamed's fork)

A clean PowerShell 7 profile for Windows Terminal with better colors, keybinds, Git shortcuts, file helpers, Terminal-Icons, oh-my-posh (cobalt2 theme), and zoxide.

Forked from ChrisTitusTech/powershell-profile. All credit for the original design and architecture goes to Chris Titus Tech.

What Changed from Upstream

This fork strips the profile down to a personal, self-managed setup:

Area	Upstream	This fork
Auto-update	Auto-updates from GitHub every 7 days	Removed (managed manually)
WinUtil helpers	winutil, winutildev, windev	Removed (not used)
Editor priority	nvim, pvim, vim, vi, code, codium, notepad++, sublime_text	nvim, vim, zed, code, notepad++
Legacy module path	Not present	Added (WindowsPowerShell\Modules in $env:PSModulePath)
gp alias	Active (Set-Alias gp gpush)	Commented out (conflicts with git pull habit)
Theme file	Downloaded at setup time	cobalt2.omp.json bundled in this repo

Install

Run PowerShell as Administrator inside Windows Terminal:

irm "https://github.com/7xmohamed/powershell-profile/raw/main/setup.ps1" | iex

The installer:

• Backs up an existing profile with a timestamped oldprofile-*.ps1 file.
• Installs this repository's Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1.
• Installs Oh My Posh, zoxide, Terminal-Icons, and the CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font.
• Downloads the cobalt2.omp.json theme into your PowerShell profile directory.

The profile itself does not auto-update, download themes, or upgrade PowerShell at shell startup. Missing optional tools are skipped with a warning.

After installing, restart Windows Terminal and set your PowerShell font to CaskaydiaCove NF.

What's Included

• PSReadLine colors, list-view suggestions, and shell-friendly keybinds.
• Optional Terminal-Icons, oh-my-posh (cobalt2 theme), and zoxide startup.
• Git shortcuts: gs, ga, gcom, gpush, gpull, gcl, lazyg.
• File helpers: touch, mkcd, trash, ff, head, sed, which.
• Process/system helpers: pgrep, pkill, k9, uptime.
• Navigation/listing helpers: g, docs, la, ll.

Run Show-Help in PowerShell to see the full command list.

Theme

By default, the profile uses the bundled cobalt2.omp.json theme placed in:

$Home\Documents\PowerShell\cobalt2.omp.json

Set POSH_THEME to use a different oh-my-posh theme path.

Customize

Put personal customizations in your all-hosts profile:

Edit-Profile

You can also place CTTcustom.ps1 beside Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1. It is loaded first before override variables and functions are read.

Supported Overrides

Variables:

$EDITOR_Override
$show_help_Override

Functions:

Update-PowerShell_Override
Clear-Cache_Override
Get-Theme_Override
Set-PredictionSource_Override

Avoid calling the original function from its override, otherwise the override will recurse.