Introduction
Windows Terminal is a powerful tool for managing your development environment. The settings as they are are sufficient, but you can customize your own settings for more convenient operation.
So, I will introduce my terminal settings.
Requirements
In advance, you need to install the following software:
- PowerShell 7.x
- Git for Windows
- WSL2
- Scoop
If you don't have these software, you can install them by following the link below.
PowerShell 7.x
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.4/PowerShell-7.2.4-win-x64.msi
Git for Windows
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.36.1.windows.1/Git-2.36.1-64-bit.exe
WSL2
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Scoop
Windows Terminal Settings
The default background color of Windows Terminal is black, making it difficult to tell which terminal is which when you install some WSL distribution or PowerShell. You change the color of the terminal and the font of the text. 
I define my own color and font in the following way.
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color scheme:
- One Half Dark
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font style:
- Nerd Font
Nerd Font has a wide selection of development-oriented icons that are useful.
https://www.nerdfonts.com/#home
Installation Page
https://eng.fontke.com/font/24644369/
In my opinion, it is a little difficult to install the font in Windows by official page. You can install the one to drag and drop by Windows personal settings page. 
Set color scheme via GUI or describe it in JSON file.
{
"background": "#282C34",
"black": "#282C34",
"blue": "#61AFEF",
"brightBlack": "#5A6374",
"brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
"brightCyan": "#56B6C2",
"brightGreen": "#98C379",
"brightPurple": "#C678DD",
"brightRed": "#E06C75",
"brightWhite": "#DCDFE4",
"brightYellow": "#E5C07B",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#56B6C2",
"foreground": "#DCDFE4",
"green": "#98C379",
"name": "One Half Dark",
"purple": "#C678DD",
"red": "#E06C75",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#DCDFE4",
"yellow": "#E5C07B"
}
Also, you generate it by this generator site.
https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/
Copy color scheme setting and paste it to the setting.json file, making the terminal so nice. 
Git Customization
Next, I will customize the git operation. I think you make good use of the prompt display and tab completion functions to make the prompt easier to read when you use Git in the terminal. For example, you would describe .bashrc or .zshrc if you are using Mac.
There are several useful tools in PowerShell to help your Git Operation, and I will introduce them.
oh-my-posh
Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell(bash, zsh or PowerShell) that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable.
scoop install oh-my-posh
jandedobbeleer(My favorite theme)
After installing it, you describe oh-my-posh command loading the oh-my-posh theme at terminal startup in $PROFILE.
# $PROFILE
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config ~/AppData/Local/Programs/oh-my-posh/themes/jandedobbeleer.omp.json | Invoke-Expression
There are various the oh-my-posh themes. You could find favorite theme.
https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/themes
posh-git
https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git#overview
posh-git is a PowerShell module that integrates Git and PowerShell by providing Git status summary information that can be displayed in the PowerShell prompt.
scoop install posh-git
After installing it, you add module to $PROFILE.
# $PROFILE
Import-Module posh-git
However, PowerShell's tab completion is a bit quirky by default, as it does not list search suggestions like zsh. Add the following PowerShell command to $PROFILE to allow multiple search suggestions to be displayed during tab completion.
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete
Scoop tab completion
In default, Scoop does not have tab completion. You install the module providing the tab completion and activate it.
https://github.com/Moeologist/scoop-completion
scoop install scoop-completion
# add $PROFILE
Import-Module "$($(Get-Item $(Get-Command scoop.ps1).Path).Directory.Parent.FullName)\modules\scoop-completion"
Display icons from terminal
https://github.com/devblackops/Terminal-Icons
This is a PowerShell module to show file and folder icons in the terminal. It is similar to Material Icon Theme, VS code plugin.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PKief.material-icon-theme
Install and activate it in the same way.
scoop install terminal-icons
# add $PROFILE
Import-Module Terminal-Icons
Install GitHub CLI
After git pushing on the terminal, I usually think it is boring to open a browser and PR every time to merge into the GitHub repository. GitHub CLI provides a command line interface to GitHub. On the terminal, you can use it to push, pull and so on.
scoop install gh
gh --version
gh version 2.11.3 (2022-05-25)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.11.3
# need to authenticate from the terminal using it for the first time.
gh auth login
# pass ssh key or token to link terminal and GitHub together.
gh auth status
github.com
✓ Logged in to github.com as Yuhta28 (C:\Users\yuta_\AppData\Roaming\GitHub CLI\hosts.yml)
✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use ssh protocol.
✓ Token: *******************
You merge the PR by using the GitHub CLI, and main branch of local repository automatically is merged and pulled. Merged branches can be deleted, eliminating the accumulation of unneeded branches and reducing the operational load.
gh pr merge
? What merge method would you like to use? Create a merge commit
? Delete the branch locally and on GitHub? Yes
? What's next? Submit
✓ Merged pull request #139 (feature/add new blog windows git)
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (1/1), 648 bytes | 49.00 KiB/s, done.
From github.com:Yuhta28/zenn-blog
* branch main -> FETCH_HEAD
32be209..d7672f3 main -> origin/main
Updating 32be209..d7672f3
Fast-forward
.textlintrc | 3 +-
articles/94744fc7a339cd.md | 2 +-
articles/eventbridge-slack.md | 2 +-
articles/first-article-by-cli-yuta.md | 2 +-
articles/windows-git-dev.md | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
✓ Deleted branch feature/add-new-blog-windows-git and switched to branch main
GitHub CLI also provides tab completion tools, and you activate it.
# add $PROFILE
Invoke-Expression -Command $(gh completion -s powershell | Out-String)
Conclusion
I share customization that makes Windows Terminal more convenient to use. I believe the change of color theme or implementation of functions such as tab completion and GitHub CLI will contribute to improve development efficiency.
If you have any other recommendations for Windows Terminal, please comment.
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