diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b94aff53e..ff4fbf5b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ Re-open your terminal, or just reload it to take changes into account:
  * James Ahlborn
  * [Andreas Jaggi](http://github.com/x-way)
  * [Wayne Davison](http://github.com/WayneD)
+ * [Suraj N. Kurapati](http://github.com/sunaku)
diff --git a/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh b/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
index 2cd8d4274..0028372f3 100644
--- a/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
+++ b/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ colorize-zle-buffer() {
 # Bind the function to ZLE events.
 ZLE_COLORED_FUNCTIONS=(
     self-insert
+    magic-space
     delete-char
     backward-delete-char
     kill-word