3.8 KiB
How to install
Using packages
- Arch Linux: community/zsh-syntax-highlighting / AUR/zsh-syntax-highlighting-git
- Debian:
zsh-syntax-highlighting
package instretch
- Fedora: zsh-syntax-highlighting package in Fedora 24+
- FreeBSD:
pkg install zsh-syntax-highlighting
(port name:textproc/zsh-syntax-highlighting
) - Gentoo: mv overlay
- Mac OS X / Homebrew: brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
- Ubuntu:
zsh-syntax-highlighting
package in Xenial
In your ~/.zshrc
Simply clone this repository and source the script:
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
echo "source ${(q-)PWD}/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zshrc
Then, enable syntax highlighting in the current interactive shell:
source ./zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
If git
is not installed, download and extract a snapshot of the latest
development tree from:
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/archive/master.tar.gz
Note the source
command must be at the end of ~/.zshrc
.
With a plugin manager
Note that zsh-syntax-highlighting
must be the last plugin sourced.
The zsh-syntax-highlighting authors recommend manual installation over the use of a framework or plugin manager.
This list is incomplete as there are too many [frameworks / plugin managers] (https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins#frameworks) to list them all here.
Antigen
Add antigen bundle zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
as the last bundle in
your .zshrc
.
Oh-my-zsh
-
Clone this repository in oh-my-zsh's plugins directory:
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
-
Activate the plugin in
~/.zshrc
:plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-syntax-highlighting)
-
Source
~/.zshrc
to take changes into account:source ~/.zshrc
Prezto
Zsh-syntax-highlighting is included with Prezto. See the [Prezto documentation] (https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto/tree/master/modules/syntax-highlighting) to enable and configure highlighters.
zgen
Add zgen load zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
to the end of your .zshrc
.
zplug
Add zplug "zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting", nice:10
to your .zshrc
.
zplugin
Add zplugin load zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
to the end of your
.zshrc
.
System-wide installation
Any of the above methods is suitable for a single-user installation, which requires no special privileges. If, however, you desire to install zsh-syntax-highlighting system-wide, you may do so by running
make install
and directing your users to add
source /usr/local/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
to their .zshrc
s.