zsh-syntax-highlighting
=======================

An attempt at providing [Fish shell](http://www.fishshell.org) like syntax highlighting for [Zsh](http://www.zsh.org).


## Usage


### From your ~/.zshrc

Download the script or clone this repository:

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

Update your `~/.zshrc` so that the script is sourced:

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

Re-open your terminal, or just reload it to take changes into account:

    source ~/.zshrc


### With [oh-my-zsh](http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh)

Download the script or clone this repository as a oh-my-zsh plugin:

    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

Update your `~/.zshrc` so that the script is sourced:

    plugins=(zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Re-open your terminal, or just reload it to take changes into account:
    
    source ~/.zshrc


## References

 * [zsh-users mailing list thread](http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2010/msg00692.html)
 * [Gist 586698](http://gist.github.com/586698) and forks


## Authors / Greetings

 * [Roy Zuo](http://github.com/roylez)
 * [Julien Nicoulaud](http://github.com/nicoulaj)
 * [Dave Ingram](http://github.com/dingram)
 * [Mounier Florian](http://github.com/paradoxxxzero)
 * [Jonathan Dahan](http://github.com/jedahan)
 * James Ahlborn
 * [Andreas Jaggi](http://github.com/x-way)
 * [Wayne Davison](http://github.com/WayneD)
 * [Suraj N. Kurapati](http://github.com/sunaku)