diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8fa66f02f..f01154095 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 locals.zsh
 log/.zsh_history
 projects.zsh
-custom
-!custom/plugins/example
+#custom/*
+!custom/example
 !custom/example.zsh
 *.swp
 !custom/example.zshcache
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3fdba2113
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting"]
+	path = custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
+	url = git://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
diff --git a/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting b/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..bb0d57594
--- /dev/null
+++ b/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit bb0d575942760fe483790fe878ea43b1f781e2ca