Re: Dynamic colored command in zsh

[Julien Nicoulaud <julien.nicoulaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, that would be great !

Roy, can you give us the options you use ? The "=~" equalities throw errors
for me.

2010/9/13 Roy Zuo <roylzuo@xxxxxxxxx>

> Yes, I tried today and made some progress. I can make the color for the
> command
> to change whenever I type a new character or delete one. However my ZLE
> skill is
> quite limited and someone else might be able to make this also work when
> TAB is
> pressed.
>
>    recolor-cmd() {
>        args=(${(z)BUFFER})
>        cmd=$args[1]
>        res=$(builtin type $cmd 2>/dev/null)
>        [ -z $res ]  && return
>        if [ $res =~ 'reserved word' ]; then
>            color="magenta"
>        elif [ $res =~ 'an alias' ]; then
>
>            color="cyan"
>        elif [ $res =~ 'shell builtin' ]; then
>            color="yellow"
>        elif [ $res =~ 'shell function' ]; then
>            color='green'
>        elif [ $res =~ "$cmd is" ]; then
>            color="blue"
>        else
>            color="red"
>        fi
>        region_highlight=("0 ${#cmd} fg=${color},bold")
>    }
>
>    check-cmd-self-insert() { zle .self-insert && recolor-cmd }
>    check-cmd-backward-delete-char() { zle .backward-delete-char &&
> recolor-cmd }
>
>    zle -N self-insert check-cmd-self-insert
>    zle -N backward-delete-char check-cmd-backward-delete-char
>
> Regards,
>
> Roy
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:04:08PM +0200, Michel wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to have the dynamic colored command in zsh as in fish ?
> >
> > By example : if I type "grep", for each caracter before the "p" the
> > word is colored in red but when I type the last caractere the word is
> > colored in green. The coloring should be appled on parameters, string
> > (between 2 " or '), the color should be different if the word is
> > alias, function or command.
> >
> > Thanks for your answer
> >
> > Nice day
> > _____________________
> > Michel BARRET
> >
>
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