zsh-syntax-highlighting/highlighters/files

zsh-syntax-highlighting / highlighters / files

This is the files highlighter, that highlights existing files appearing on the command line.

Quickstart

If you are happy with your LS_COLORS, simply add the following line to your .zshrc after sourcing zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh:

zsh_highlight_files_extract_ls_colors

Configuration

Files are colored according to the associative arrays ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_TYPES and ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_PATTERNS. The values of ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_TYPES are color specifications as in ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES, and the keys define which file types are highlighted according to that style (following LS_COLORS):

• fi - ordinary files
• di - directories
• ln - symbolic links
• pi - pipes
• so - sockets
• bd - block devices
• cd - character devices
• or - broken symlinks
• ex - executable files
• su - files that have the suid bit set
• sg - files that have the sgid bit set
• ow - files that are world-writable
• tw - files that are world-writable and sticky
• lp - if set, the path-component of a filename is highlighted using this style

If a file would be highlighted fi, then it can be highlighted according to the filename using ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_PATTERNS instead. The keys of this associative array are arbitrary glob patterns; the values are color specifications. For instance, if have setopt extended_glob and you write

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_PATTERNS[(#i)*.jpe#g]=red,bold

then the files foo.jpg and bar.jPeG will be colored red and bold.