'main': Introduce style fallback for the command word.

Fixes #316.

* danielsh/i316-v2:
  'main': Enable fallback to the 'arg0' style.
  'main': Set fallback style for the 'arg0' style.
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Daniel Shahaf
2016-09-28 13:25:05 +00:00
3 changed files with 92 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ This highlighter defines the following styles:
* `assign` - parameter assignments
* `redirection` - redirection operators (`<`, `>`, etc)
* `comment` - comments, when `setopt INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS` is in effect (`echo # foo`)
* `arg0` - a command word other than one of those enumrated above (other than a command, precommand, alias, function, or shell builtin command).
* `default` - everything else
To override one of those styles, change its entry in `ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES`,
@@ -65,4 +66,26 @@ The syntax for values is the same as the syntax of "types of highlighting" of
the zsh builtin `$zle_highlight` array, which is documented in [the `zshzle(1)`
manual page][zshzle-Character-Highlighting].
### Useless trivia
#### Forward compatibility.
zsh-syntax-highlighting attempts to be forward-compatible with zsh.
Specifically, we attempt to facilitate highlighting _command word_ types that
had not yet been invented when this version of zsh-syntax-highlighting was
released.
A _command word_ is something like a function name, external command name, et
cetera. (See
[Simple Commands & Pipelines in `zshmisc(1)`][zshmisc-Simple-Commands-And-Pipelines]
for a formal definition.)
If a new _kind_ of command word is ever added to zsh — something conceptually
different than "function" and "alias" and "external command" — then command words
of that (new) kind will be highlighted by the style `arg0_$kind`,
where `$kind` is the output of `type -w` on the new kind of command word. If that
style is not defined, then the style `arg0` will be used instead.
[zshmisc-Simple-Commands-And-Pipelines]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Shell-Grammar.html#Simple-Commands-_0026-Pipelines
[zshzle-Character-Highlighting]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#Character-Highlighting