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authorMarc Cornellà <marc.cornella@live.com>2020-02-27 22:55:30 +0100
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@@ -6,30 +6,43 @@ Colorize will highlight the content based on the filename extension. If it can't
method for a given extension, it will try to find one by looking at the file contents. If no highlight method
is found it will just cat the file normally, without syntax highlighting.
-To use it, add colorize to the plugins array of your zshrc file:
+## Setup
+
+To use it, add colorize to the plugins array of your `~/.zshrc` file:
```
plugins=(... colorize)
```
-## Styles
+## Configuration
-Pygments offers multiple styles. By default, the `default` style is used, but you can choose another theme by setting the `ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE` environment variable:
+### Requirements
-`ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE="colorful"`
+This plugin requires that at least one of the following tools is installed:
-## Usage
+* [Chroma](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma)
+* [Pygments](https://pygments.org/download/)
+
+### Colorize tool
-* `ccat <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided).
- If no arguments are passed it will colorize the standard input or stdin.
+Colorize supports `pygmentize` and `chroma` as syntax highlighter. By default colorize uses `pygmentize` unless it's not installed and `chroma` is. This can be overridden by the `ZSH_COLORIZE_TOOL` environment variable:
+
+```
+ZSH_COLORIZE_TOOL=chroma
+```
-* `cless <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided) and
- open less. If no arguments are passed it will colorize the standard input or stdin.
+### Styles
-Note that `cless` will behave as less when provided more than one file: you have to navigate files with
-the commands `:n` for next and `:p` for previous. The downside is that less options are not supported.
-But you can circumvent this by either using the LESS environment variable, or by running `ccat file1 file2|less --opts`.
-In the latter form, the file contents will be concatenated and presented by less as a single file.
+Pygments offers multiple styles. By default, the `default` style is used, but you can choose another theme by setting the `ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE` environment variable:
+
+```
+ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE="colorful"
+```
+
+## Usage
-## Requirements
+* `ccat <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided).
+ If no files are passed it will colorize the standard input.
-You have to install Pygments first: [pygments.org](http://pygments.org/download/)
+* `cless [less-options] <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided) and open less.
+ If no files are passed it will colorize the standard input.
+ The LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE will be overwritten for this to work, but only in a local scope.