How to install -------------- ### Using packages * Arch Linux: [community/zsh-syntax-highlighting][arch-package] / [AUR/zsh-syntax-highlighting-git][AUR-package] * Debian: [in "unstable"][debian-package] * Gentoo: [mv overlay][gentoo-overlay] * Mac OS X / Homebrew: [brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting][brew-package] * Ubuntu: [in Xenial][ubuntu-package] [arch-package]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/zsh-syntax-highlighting [AUR-package]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zsh-syntax-highlighting-git [debian-package]: https://packages.debian.org/zsh-syntax-highlighting [gentoo-overlay]: http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-shells/zsh-syntax-highlighting [ubuntu-package]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsh-syntax-highlighting [brew-package]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/zsh-syntax-highlighting.rb ### In your ~/.zshrc Simply clone this repository and source the script: git clone git://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git echo "source ${(q-)PWD}/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc If `git` is not installed, download and extract a snapshot of the latest development tree from: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/archive/master.tar.gz Note the `source` command must be **at the end** of `~/.zshrc`. ### With oh-my-zsh Oh-my-zsh is a zsh configuration framework. It lives at . To install zsh-syntax-highlighting under oh-my-zsh: 1. Clone this repository in oh-my-zsh's plugins directory: git clone git://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting 2. Activate the plugin in `~/.zshrc`: plugins=( [plugins...] zsh-syntax-highlighting) 3. Source `~/.zshrc` to take changes into account: source ~/.zshrc Note that `zsh-syntax-highlighting` must be the last plugin sourced, so make it the last element of the `$plugins` array. ### System-wide installation Either of the above methods is suitable for a single-user installation, which requires no special privileges. If, however, you desire to install zsh-syntax-highlighting system-wide, you may do so by running make install and directing your users to add source /usr/local/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh to their `.zshrc`s.