zcolors VS vivid

Compare zcolors vs vivid and see what are their differences.

zcolors

🌈 Use your $LS_COLORS to generate a coherent theme for Git & your Zsh prompt, command line and completions. (by marlonrichert)

vivid

A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase (by sharkdp)
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zcolors vivid
2 7
75 1,566
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5.3 7.1
28 days ago 1 day ago
Shell Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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zcolors

Posts with mentions or reviews of zcolors. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-10.
  • Useful settings?
    15 projects | /r/zsh | 10 Aug 2021
    I maintain several useful Zsh plugins: * zsh-autocomplete lists completions as you type and adds lots of additional completion features. * zsh-edit adds various handy keyboard shortcuts and a clipboard viewer. * zsh-hist adds commands and keyboard shortcuts for you quickly fixing or deleting entries from your command history. * Z Colors uses your $LS_COLORS to automatically generate a coherent color scheme for Zsh completions and Git output.
  • LS_COLORS with zsh's autocomplete
    2 projects | /r/zsh | 23 Mar 2021
    That will color file completions, yes, but nothing else. If you want to have colors in the rest of your completions, too, try my Z Colors plugin.

vivid

Posts with mentions or reviews of vivid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.
  • Exa Is Deprecated
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    I just use good old `ls` with colors set by vivid [1]

    [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid

  • How to get ls output to look like DT's?
    2 projects | /r/DistroTube | 14 Dec 2021
    I came across https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid and thought it was quite nice, but it doesn't change ls colors for anything but the file names. I really like how everything in DT's videos has color output so I was wondering how he did it. Did he use some script or utility or did he configure it from scratch? If it's the latter, is there a resource I can use to learn how to do it? Thanks.
  • fd is looking for contributors
    8 projects | /r/rust | 8 Aug 2021
    fd is my very first Rust project. In fact, if you go back in (Git) history, the project was originally written in C++. I have created various other Rust command-line tools since then, but I love coming back to fd, as I personally use it the most.
  • LS_COLORS with zsh's autocomplete
    2 projects | /r/zsh | 23 Mar 2021
    Hello. I made my custom LS_COLORS using very nice tool vivid and it works perfectly well. Now I wonder is it possible to use the same file highlighting when zsh autocompletes files names. For example when I type cp it gives me a "menu" of all files and directories in current folder, but they are all white and I would like it to be in the same style as output of the ls command.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zcolors and vivid you can also consider the following projects:

fancy-git - That's a terminal prompt changer that shows a few cool git informations about your repository state. You can choose among different styles and enjoy all the aliases it provides you. Feel free for contributing, pull requests and issues are always welcome! ;)

hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

pastel - A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

bfs - A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command

zsh-edit - 🛠 Better command line editing tools for Zsh

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

seasonal-zshthemes - 🍁 Seasonal ZSH Themes - Impress your friends ~ Automatic terminal theming for each season

wd - :rocket: Jump to custom directories in zsh

zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

meh - Sam's dotfiles, configs, etc.

zsh-completions - Additional completion definitions for Zsh.