zsh-syntax-highlighting VS fast-syntax-highlighting

Lastly, let’s make what commands we’re running easier to read, using zsh-syntax-highlighting. This script (which must be loaded before the zsh-history-substring-search above) will provide syntax highlighting of commands as you write them. This will help you avoid typos for incorrect commands, and make complex commands easier to read.

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions && git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting && git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting && git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

brew install fzf # for fuzzy find files, commands, etc brew install starship $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting # syntax highlight for zsh git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions # smart autosuggestions for zsh echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

# run this git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting $ZSH/custom/zsh-syntax-highlighting # add this to your .zshrc plugin=(... zsh-syntax-highlighting)

$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting $ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

sudo 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

Two by far the most popular plugins are zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. They are of high quality and quite useful.

echo "Installing zsh-autosuggestions" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions echo "Installing zsh-syntax-highlighting" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting echo "Installing asdf" git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf

Syntax highlighting

I’m concerned because I found this repo https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting which tries to imitate the old repo (before it was deleted). It’s a fork from the z-shell one. I don’t know if they’re both from the sane owner but I find it sketchy. Also z-shell doesn’t have as many stars as zdharma-continuum.

It might even work with the highlighting you're already using with OMZ, but the demo uses syntax highlighting from: fast syntax highlighting

Even http://zdharma.org/ is gone

I use https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting which highlights git --version differently than git --asdf. AFAIK it uses the completions to "know" what options are valid.

Syntax highlighting at https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting

# Plugin: zsh-abbr # Fish like expansion of abbreviations. # https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr . /home/tuncay/.config/zsh/zsh-abbr/zsh-abbr.zsh # Plugin: zsh-autocomplete # Realtime auto completion. # Note: Remove any calls to `compinit` from `.zshrc`. # https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete . /home/tuncay/.config/zsh/zsh-autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh # Plugin: fast-syntax-highlighting # Syntax highlighting like source codes in an editor. # https://github.com/zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting . /home/tuncay/.config/zsh/fast-syntax-highlighting/fast-syntax-highlighting.plugin.zsh