zsh-help

A zsh plugin to colorize XXX --help.

Dependencies

• bat: this plugin will do nothing if bat is not installed.

Install

This plugin respects zsh plugin standard, so if you use any plugin manager and follow the instructions of your plugin manager, it can be installed correctly.

Customize

Colorize More Options

By default, the plugin colorizes --help, -?, --help-all, etc. You can customize it to colorize more options like:

alias -g -- '-h=-h | -help'

Because many software use -h to represent --human-readable, --hex, etc. not --help, this plugin doesn't colorize -h by default.

Function -help()

You can redefine function -help() to customize the colorization. Such as:

-help() {
  bat -plhelp --paging=always --color=always
}

will use a pager like less to display XXX --help. More options can be found by bat --help.

Force to Colorize

You can XXX -h | -help to force to colorize XXX -h.

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