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Daniel Shahaf 59fbdda64c main: Refresh highlighting upon accept-* widgets (accept-line et al). Use this to remove [path_prefix] highlighting during accept-* widgets. This causes ": file.tx<CR>" to remove the underline from "file.tx", like ": file.tx<SPACE>" already does. (Assume 'file.txt' exists.)		2015-10-28 09:24:08 +02:00
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README.md	Remove path_approx.	2015-10-27 04:29:05 +00:00

README.md

zsh-syntax-highlighting / highlighters / main

This is the main highlighter, that highlights:

Commands
Options
Arguments
Paths
Strings

How to activate it

To activate it, add it to ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS:

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS=( [...] main)

This highlighter is active by default.

How to tweak it

This highlighter defines the following styles:

unknown-token - unknown tokens / errors
reserved-word - shell reserved words
alias - aliases
suffix-alias - suffix aliases (requires zsh 5.1.1 or newer)
builtin - shell builtin commands
function - functions
command - commands
precommand - precommands (i.e. exec, builtin, ...)
commandseparator - command separation tokens
hashed-command - hashed commands
path - paths
path_prefix - path prefixes
globbing - globbing expressions (*.txt)
history-expansion - history expansion expressions (!foo and ^foo^bar)
single-hyphen-option - single hyphen options (-o)
double-hyphen-option - double hyphen options (--option)
back-quoted-argument - backquoted expressions (`foo`)
single-quoted-argument - single quoted arguments ('foo')
double-quoted-argument - double quoted arguments ("foo")
dollar-quoted-argument - dollar quoted arguments ($'foo')
dollar-double-quoted-argument - dollar double quoted arguments ($foo inside "")
back-double-quoted-argument - back double quoted arguments (\x inside "")
back-dollar-quoted-argument - back dollar quoted arguments (\x inside $'')
assign - variable assignments
redirection - redirection operators (<, >, etc)
default - parts of the buffer that do not match anything

To override one of those styles, change its entry in ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES, for example in ~/.zshrc:

# Declare the variable
typeset -A ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES

# To differentiate aliases from other command types
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[alias]='fg=magenta,bold'

# To have paths colored instead of underlined
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[path]='fg=cyan'

# To disable highlighting of globbing expressions
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[globbing]='none'

The syntax for declaring styles is documented in the zshzle(1) manual
page.