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 array ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_TYPES and the array 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. This array has the form (glob1 style1 glob2 style2 glob3 style3 ...), where the globs are arbitrary glob patterns, and the styles 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.

Limitations

This highlighter makes no attempt to determine if a word is in command position. Hence if you run the command cat foo and you happen to have a directory named cat in the current directory, then the highlighter will highlight cat according to ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_FILE_TYPES[di] and not ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[command] (assuming you load the files highlighter after the main one). Likewise with aliases, reserved words, etc.