Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

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README.md

zsh-syntax-highlighting

Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

Try it

Here is a one-liner to try it without installing or modifying anything:

wget --no-check-certificate --output-document=/tmp/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh https://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting/raw/master/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh && . /tmp/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Install it

In your ~/.zshrc

Download the script or clone this repository:

  git clone git://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git

Source the script at the end of ~/.zshrc:

  source /path/to/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Source ~/.zshrc to take changes into account:
```
  source ~/.zshrc
```

With oh-my-zsh

Download the script or clone this repository in oh-my-zsh plugins directory:

  cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/
  git clone git://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
  cd zsh-syntax-highlighting
  ln -s zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh zsh-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh

Activate the plugin in ~/.zshrc
```
  plugins=(zsh-syntax-highlighting)
```
Source ~/.zshrc to take changes into account:
```
  source ~/.zshrc
```

Tweak it

Optionally, you can override the default styles used for highlighting. The styles are declared in the ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES array. You can override styles this way:

# To differenciate 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'

This must be done after the script is sourced, otherwise your styles will be overwritten. The syntax for declaring styles is documented here.