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Mark Lodato 441f1a8aad highlight array assignments of the form x[y]=... This code is more lenient than bash. Examples: $ x[y[]= zsh: no matches found: x[y[]= $ x[][]= zsh: no matches found: x[][]= The proper solution is to look inside the [...] and make sure that all unescaped/unquoted square brackes are matched, but that is a heck of a lot more complicated than this simple 8-character patch.		2013-10-30 00:53:46 -04:00
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brackets	Fix bracket highlighter	2012-04-07 17:09:15 +02:00
cursor	Add cursor highlighter	2011-07-27 00:13:41 +02:00
main	highlight array assignments of the form x[y]=...	2013-10-30 00:53:46 -04:00
pattern	make $pattern local to _zsh_highlight_pattern_highlighter #97	2012-12-09 10:43:00 +09:00
root	Issue #92 Eliminates system bell errors on osx.	2013-07-25 11:39:21 -07:00
README.md	Fix relative links in highlighters readme	2013-02-26 18:03:35 -08:00

README.md

zsh-syntax-highlighting / highlighters

Syntax highlighting is done by pluggable highlighters:

main - the base highlighter, and the only one active by default.
brackets - matches brackets and parenthesis.
pattern - matches user-defined patterns.
cursor - matches the cursor position.
root - triggered if the current user is root.

How to activate highlighters

To activate an highlighter, add it to the ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS array in ~/.zshrc, for example:

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS=(main brackets pattern cursor)

How to tweak highlighters

Highlighters look up styles from the ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES array. Navigate into each highlighter directory to see what styles it defines and how to configure it.

How to implement a new highlighter

To create your own myhighlighter highlighter:

Create your script at highlighters/myhighlighter/myhighlighter-highlighter.zsh.
Implement the _zsh_highlight_myhighlighter_highlighter_predicate function. This function must return 0 when the highlighter needs to be called, for example:
```
  _zsh_highlight_myhighlighter_highlighter_predicate() {
    # Call this highlighter in SVN repositories
    [[ -d .svn ]]
  }
```
Implement the _zsh_highlight_myhighlighter_highlighter function. This function does the actual syntax highlighting, by modifying region_highlight, for example:
```
  _zsh_highlight_myhighlighter_highlighter() {
    # Colorize the whole buffer with blue background
    region_highlight+=(0 $#BUFFER bg=blue)
  }
```

Activate your highlighter in ~/.zshrc:

  ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS+=(myhighlighter)