zsh-syntax-highlighting

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Daniel Shahaf b52a485c5c brackets: Optimize a tiny bit. Compute «${#BUFFER}» just once. I haven't measured the effect of this, but it might just avoid a strlen() every time around the loop, which could add up for large ${BUFFER}s. See issue #295.		2016-04-22 14:14:15 +00:00
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test-data	tests: Quote style in expected_region_highlight	2016-04-02 09:45:24 -05:00
brackets-highlighter.zsh	brackets: Optimize a tiny bit.	2016-04-22 14:14:15 +00:00
README.md	docs: Fix broken symlinks	2015-11-24 00:40:09 -06:00

README.md

zsh-syntax-highlighting / highlighters / brackets

This is the brackets highlighter, that highlights brackets and parentheses, and
matches them.

How to tweak it

This highlighter defines the following styles:

bracket-error - unmatched brackets
bracket-level-N - brackets with nest level N
cursor-matchingbracket - the matching bracket, if cursor is on a bracket

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

# To define styles for nested brackets up to level 4
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[bracket-level-1]='fg=blue,bold'
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[bracket-level-2]='fg=red,bold'
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[bracket-level-3]='fg=yellow,bold'
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[bracket-level-4]='fg=magenta,bold'

The syntax for values is the same as the syntax of "types of highlighting" of
the zsh builtin $zle_highlight array, which is documented in the zshzle(1)
manual page.