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=magenta,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=yellow,bold'
ZLE_DOUBLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION='fg=green,bold'
ZLE_SINGLE_QUOTED='fg=magenta,bold'
ZLE_DOUBLE_QUOTED='fg=red,bold'
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' '§')

_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
}

# Recolorize the current ZLE buffer.
colorize-zle-buffer() {
  setopt localoptions extendedglob
  region_highlight=()
  colorize=true
  start_pos=0
  for arg in ${(z)BUFFER}; do
    ((start_pos+=${#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 $arg 2>/dev/null)
      case $res in
        *'reserved word'*)  style=$ZLE_RESERVED_WORD_STYLE;;
        *'an alias'*)       style=$ZLE_ALIAS_STYLE;;
        *'shell builtin'*)  style=$ZLE_BUILTIN_STYLE;;
        *'shell function'*) style=$ZLE_FUNCTION_STYLE;;
        *"${cmd:-no-command-specified} is"*) style=$ZLE_COMMAND_STYLE;;
        *)
	style=$ZLE_COMMAND_UNKNOWN_TOKEN_STYLE
	_check_path && style=$ZLE_PATH_STYLE
	;;
      esac
    else
	case $arg in
	    '--'*) style=$ZLE_DOUBLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION;;
	    '-'*) style=$ZLE_HYPHEN_CLI_OPTION;;
	    "'"*"'") style=$ZLE_SINGLE_QUOTED;;
	    '"'*'"') style=$ZLE_DOUBLE_QUOTED;;
	    '`'*'`') style=$ZLE_BACK_QUOTED;;
	    *"*"*) style=$ZLE_GLOBING;;
	    *)
	    style=$ZLE_DEFAULT
	    _check_path && style=$ZLE_PATH_STYLE
	    ;;
	esac
    fi
    region_highlight+=("$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
    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