Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
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Daniel Shahaf 219184f046 Highlight backslash escapes in "" and $'' strings correctly.
Remove highlighting of hex and octal escapes in "" strings (which don't parse
those escapes), add it to $'' strings (which do), and correct the regexps.
Also add support for unicode \u/\U escapes.

Fixes zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting#196.

* danielsh/i196-back-dollar-quoted-v1:
  back-dollar-quoted-argument: Correct an off-by-one.
  back-dollar-quoted-argument: Correct octal escape syntax.
  back-dollar-quoted-argument: Highlight \uHHHH and \UHHHHHHHH escapes.
  back-dollar-quoted-argument: Don't consider \0xHH a hex escape sequence.
  back-dollar-quoted-argument: Don't consider comma a hex character.
  Highlight backslash escapes within $'' strings.
2015-09-26 17:55:10 +00:00
highlighters back-dollar-quoted-argument: Correct an off-by-one. 2015-09-26 01:09:37 +00:00
tests Bump copyright years. 2015-09-24 16:46:28 +00:00
.gitignore Ignore zwc files 2011-09-06 19:15:09 +02:00
COPYING.md Bump copyright years, part 2. 2015-09-24 16:48:27 +00:00
README.md README: Document release announcements. 2015-09-24 23:00:05 +00:00
zsh-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh
zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh WARN_CREATE_GLOBAL: Plug yet another instance. 2015-09-26 16:27:08 +00:00

zsh-syntax-highlighting

Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

Requirements: zsh 4.3.17+.

How to install

Using packages

In your ~/.zshrc

  • Clone this repository:

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

    (or download a snapshot)

  • 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/custom/plugins
      git clone git://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
    
  • Activate the plugin in ~/.zshrc (in last position):

      plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-syntax-highlighting)
    
  • Source ~/.zshrc to take changes into account:

      source ~/.zshrc
    

FAQ

Why must zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh be sourced at the end of the .zshrc file?

zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh wraps ZLE widgets. It must be sourced after all custom widgets have been created (i.e., after all zle -N calls and after running compinit). Widgets created later will work, but will not update the syntax highlighting.

How are new releases announced?

There is currently no "push" announcements channel. However, the following alternatives exist:

How to tweak

Syntax highlighting is done by pluggable highlighter scripts, see the highlighters directory for documentation and configuration settings.