zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fast Syntax Highlighting (F-Sy-H) is a feature-rich syntax highlighting plugin for the Zsh shell. It colorizes commands as you type, with faithful highlighting for specific commands like git, and installs via Zinit, Antigen, Zgen, Oh-My-Zsh, or manually.

Use cases

• highlight zsh commands as i type in the terminal
• make my zsh prompt show syntax errors before running commands
• get git command highlighting in zsh
• speed up zsh syntax highlighting compared to zsh-syntax-highlighting
• colorize shell scripts interactively in zsh

When to choose

• you use Zsh and want fast, feature-rich interactive syntax highlighting
• you want accurate highlighting for specific commands like git
• you already use Zinit, Antigen, Zgen, or Oh-My-Zsh plugin managers

When to avoid

• you use bash or another shell instead of Zsh
• you need a minimal setup and don't want extra plugin dependencies

Facets

plugin · maturity active

developer-tools terminal-ui developer-tools cli zsh syntax-highlighting shell-plugin zinit command-line linux macos

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