fz VS zsh-syntax-highlighting

Compare fz vs zsh-syntax-highlighting and see what are their differences.

fz

Cli shell plugin, the missing fuzzy tab completion feature for the z jump around command. (by changyuheng)
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fz zsh-syntax-highlighting
1 65
382 16,649
- 2.5%
0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago about 2 months ago
Shell Shell
Mozilla Public License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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fz

Posts with mentions or reviews of fz. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-25.
  • Zsh Plugins Commit TOP
    102 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2021
    fz : - Seamlessly adds fuzzy search to z's tab completion and lets you easily jump around among directories in your history.

zsh-syntax-highlighting

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh-syntax-highlighting. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
  • Why Oh My ZSH is so cool?
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2023
    Syntax highlighting
  • ZSH + Oh My ZSH! on Windows with WSL
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2023
    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • Wrote a "plugin manager" shell function. Any ideas for improvement?
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/zsh | 13 Feb 2023
    if (($+commands[git])); then use_plugin() { local root_dir="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/zsh/plugins" local plugin_name=${1:t} # grabbing the 5th field works for a Github url, not necessarily for every url. local plugin_dir=$root_dir/${1//[/:]/_} if ! [[ -d $plugin_dir ]] echo $EPOCHSECONDS > $plugin_dir/update_timestamp # don't continue if cloning failed git clone --depth 1 "$1" "$plugin_dir" || return local timestamp read -r timestamp < $plugin_dir/update_timestamp if ((EPOCHSECONDS - timestamp > 864000)); then # don't update timestamp if pull failed git -C $plugin_dir pull && echo $EPOCHSECONDS > $plugin_dr/update_timestamp # Match common source filenames local file for file in ($plugin_name|${plugin_name:l}).(plugin.zsh|zsh|zsh-theme)(N); do source $plugin_dir/$filename && break done } use_plugin 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions' use_plugin 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting' fi
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/zsh | 13 Feb 2023
    use_plugin 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions' use_plugin 'https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting' ```
  • How to get zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting working when installed with xbps?
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/voidlinux | 29 Jan 2023
    So I chose to install https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions and https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting using xbps. Do I need to do anything else to get them working?
  • Why should I care wether my shell is POSIX compliant?
    6 projects | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 25 Jan 2023
    use zsh with the autosuggestions and syntax-highlighting plugins if you want a posix shell with the same features as fish.
  • zsh highlighting makes environment variables invisible when input starts with "$"
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/zsh | 17 Jan 2023
    $LS_COLORS isn't used to color environment variables, the main highlighter of zsh-syntax-highlighting colors them.
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/zsh | 17 Jan 2023
    So, I am using oh-my-zsh, and have sourced zsh-syntax-highlighting as a super useful plugin. I am working in Ubuntu using zsh version 5.9.
  • What's your preferred shell &amp; why?
    13 projects | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 22 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
  • Only me?
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/neovim | 16 Oct 2022
    What’s the benefit of this over the much more popular zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fz and zsh-syntax-highlighting you can also consider the following projects:

fast-syntax-highlighting - (Short name F-Sy-H). Syntax-highlighting for Zshell – fine granularity, number of features and multiple shipped themes.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,100+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

ble.sh - Bash Line Editor―a full-featured line editor written in pure Bash! Syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. are available in Bash interactive sessions!

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

tmux-resurrect - Persists tmux environment across system restarts.

antibody - The fastest shell plugin manager.

ansible-role-zsh - Setup antigen with oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k theme, fzf, autosuggestions, syntax-highlighting

spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore