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

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# Copyleft 2010 zsh-syntax-highlighting contributors
# http://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting
# All wrongs reserved.

# Token types styles.
# See http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#SEC135
ZLE_RESERVED_WORD_STYLE='fg=yellow,bold'
ZLE_ALIAS_STYLE='fg=green,bold'
ZLE_BUILTIN_STYLE='fg=cyan,bold'
ZLE_FUNCTION_STYLE='fg=blue,bold'
ZLE_COMMAND_STYLE='fg=green,bold'
ZLE_PATH_STYLE='fg=white,underline'
ZLE_COMMAND_UNKNOWN_TOKEN_STYLE='fg=red,bold'

ZLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION='fg=white'
ZLE_DOUBLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION='fg=white'
ZLE_SINGLE_QUOTED='fg=yellow'
ZLE_DOUBLE_QUOTED='fg=yellow'
ZLE_DOLLAR_DOUBLE_QUOTED='fg=cyan'
ZLE_BACK_DOUBLE_QUOTED='fg=magenta'
ZLE_BACK_QUOTED='fg=cyan,bold'
ZLE_GLOBING='fg=blue,bold'

ZLE_DEFAULT='fg=white,bold'

ZLE_TOKENS_FOLLOWED_BY_COMMANDS=('|' '||' ';' '&' '&&' 'sudo' 'start' 'time' 'strace' 'noglob' 'command' 'builtin')

_check_path() {
	[[ -z $arg ]] && return 1
	[[ -e $arg ]] && return 0
	[[ ! -e ${arg:h} ]] && return 1
	[[ ${#BUFFER} == $end_pos && -n $(print $arg*(N)) ]] && return 0
	return 1
}

# hightlight special chars inside double-quoted strings
_hl_string() {
	local i
	local j
	local k
	local c
	for (( i = 0 ; i < end_pos - start_pos ; i += 1 )) ; do
		(( j = i + start_pos - 1 ))
		(( k = j + 1 ))
		c="$arg[$i]"
		[[ "$c" = '$' ]] && region_highlight+=("$j $k $ZLE_DOLLAR_DOUBLE_QUOTED")
		if [[ "$c" = '\' ]] ; then
			(( k = k + 1 ))
			region_highlight+=("$j $k $ZLE_BACK_DOUBLE_QUOTED")
		fi
	done
}

# Recolorize the current ZLE buffer.
colorize-zle-buffer() {
  setopt localoptions extendedglob bareglobqual
  region_highlight=()
  colorize=true
  start_pos=0
  for arg in ${(z)BUFFER}; do
    local substr_color=0
    ((start_pos+=${#BUFFER[$start_pos+1,-1]}-${#${BUFFER[$start_pos+1,-1]##[[:space:]]#}}))
    ((end_pos=$start_pos+${#arg}))
    if $colorize; then
      colorize=false
      res=$(LC_ALL=C builtin type -w $arg 2>/dev/null)
      case $res in
	*': reserved')  style=$ZLE_RESERVED_WORD_STYLE;;
	*': alias')     style=$ZLE_ALIAS_STYLE;;
	*': builtin')   style=$ZLE_BUILTIN_STYLE;;
	*': function')  style=$ZLE_FUNCTION_STYLE;;
	*': command')   style=$ZLE_COMMAND_STYLE;;
	*)
	  if _check_path; then
	    style=$ZLE_PATH_STYLE
	  else
	    style=$ZLE_COMMAND_UNKNOWN_TOKEN_STYLE
	  fi
	  ;;
      esac
    else
	case $arg in
	    '--'*) style=$ZLE_DOUBLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION;;
	    '-'*) style=$ZLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION;;
	    "'"*"'") style=$ZLE_SINGLE_QUOTED;;
	    '"'*'"')
	    style=$ZLE_DOUBLE_QUOTED
            region_highlight+=("$start_pos $end_pos $style")
	    _hl_string
	    substr_color=1
	    ;;
	    '`'*'`') style=$ZLE_BACK_QUOTED;;
	    *"*"*) style=$ZLE_GLOBING;;
	    *)
	    style=$ZLE_DEFAULT
	    _check_path && style=$ZLE_PATH_STYLE
	    ;;
	esac
    fi
    [[ $substr_color = 0 ]] && region_highlight+=("$start_pos $end_pos $style")
    [[ ${${ZLE_TOKENS_FOLLOWED_BY_COMMANDS[(r)${arg//|/\|}]:-}:+yes} = 'yes' ]] && colorize=true
    start_pos=$end_pos
  done
}

# Bind the function to ZLE events.
ZLE_COLORED_FUNCTIONS=(
    self-insert
    magic-space
    delete-char
    backward-delete-char
    kill-word
    backward-kill-word
    up-line-or-history
    down-line-or-history
    beginning-of-history
    end-of-history
    undo
    redo
    yank
)

for f in $ZLE_COLORED_FUNCTIONS; do
    eval "$f() { zle .$f && colorize-zle-buffer } ; zle -N $f"
done

# Expand or complete hack

# create an expansion widget which mimics the original "expand-or-complete" (you can see the default setup using "zle -l -L")
zle -C orig-expand-or-complete .expand-or-complete _main_complete

# use the orig-expand-or-complete inside the colorize function (for some reason, using the ".expand-or-complete" widget doesn't work the same)
expand-or-complete() { builtin zle orig-expand-or-complete && colorize-zle-buffer }
zle -N expand-or-complete