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fast-syntax-highlighting
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zdharma-continuum / fast-syntax-highlighting

fast-syntax-highlighting

Feature-rich syntax highlighting for ZSH

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3Mentions
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1.8KGitHub stars
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Feature-rich syntax highlighting for ZSH

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-04-10 12:32:21 UTC to 2025-03-26 01:06:42 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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What Hacker News says

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I love fzf but no need to invent the wheel here if you are using zsh. check out one of these zle plugins. (Demo https://asciinema.org/a/155704) I prefer these two, you get good performance, search that is semi-shell syntax aware, ranking that takes age somewhat into account, and syntax hilighting. https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... with https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... or the same thing but older, for those who like older things because they have an air of stability about them: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search
In Better Shell History Search
Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell. BUT... After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where as good as configured zsh. 1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager) 2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... 3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo... 4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions 5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions 6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab 7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration
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is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus. I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.
In Fish – A friendly interactive shell
Is anyone else mostly rolling with the zsh (not oh-my-zsh) defaults? After so many years of using Bash I switched to zsh almost a year ago. I use the vanilla zsh set up with 2 plugins: - https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin... for very good and fast syntax highlighting - https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions for auto-suggestions I don't use a plugin manager, instead I put together a ~20 line shell script[0] which handles either cloning or pulling plugins, then you can load them in your zshrc[1]. I haven't found the need for anything else and my whole dev environment is based on using tmux, terminal Vim, etc.. Basically I spend a lot of time there in my day to day. I started with the idea of "less is more" and planned to add more things over time but the time to add new things hasn't come yet. [0] https:/
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In Zim – The Zsh configuration framework

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