How to change zsh-autosuggestions color

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Vipin picture Vipin · Nov 15, 2017 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

I am new at zsh.

I've installed the plugin zsh-autosuggestions in oh-my-zsh using instruction mentioned here. I am using Linux (Fedora 26).

What my problem is I want to change the color of the text which comes in suggestion because the current one is not visible in Solarized dark color scheme.

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It is visible in light theme

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And it works fine as I can pick the current suggestion by pressing → key.

My question is that how can I change this suggested text color? I read here that there is a constant ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE, but I am unable to locate that nither in ~/.zshrc file nor in $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions directory.

Can anyone tell me where can I find that and how can I change that? Also please suggest the color which will be suitable for both dark and light theme.

Also please correct if I am going wrong.

Regards.

Answer

SergioAraujo picture SergioAraujo · Nov 15, 2017

You can edit your ~/.zshrc and change/add the variable: ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE='fg=value'

I have just tested the value from fg=8 to fg=5. I think fg stands for Foreground.

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE='fg=5'

**OBS: Add the above line at the end of your zshrc (after loading the plugin) **

I found another reference here.

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