Setting up Zsh Syntax Highlighting

Zsh Shell Syntax Highlighting

zsh-syntax-highlighting is a GitHub repo that you can setup along with Zsh to get System Highlighting for commands just like Fish-Shell,

3 Easy steps to set up Zsh Syntax Highlighting

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

% git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
Cloning into 'zsh-syntax-highlighting'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7016, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (103/103), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (51/51), done.
remote: Total 7016 (delta 50), reused 80 (delta 46), pack-reused 6913
Receiving objects: 100% (7016/7016), 1.52 MiB | 2.22 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4725/4725), done.

Now execute command: echo "source ${(q-)PWD}/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc

To enable syntax highlighting,

source ./zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Reference and more details: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/INSTALL.md

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