zsh-url-highlighter

A plugin for zsh-syntax-highlighting that turns URLs green if they respond with a "good"** status, and red otherwise. Useful for checking URL typos.

Installation

Clone this repo somewhere and then symlink the url directory into [zsh-syntax-highlighting-dir]/highlighters/ like so:

$ git clone git@github.com:ascii-soup/zsh-url-highlighter.git ~/zsh-stuff/zsh-url-highlighter
$ ln -s ~/zsh-stuff/zsh-url-highlighter/url [zsh-syntax-highlighting-dir]/highlighters/url

Modify your ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS array to add url:

# Specify which highlighters should be active
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_HIGHLIGHTERS=(main brackets pattern url)

Configuration

To change the highlight styles, you can use:

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[url-good]='fg=blue,bold'
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_STYLES[url-bad]='fg=magenta,bold'

To change the timeout in curl from the default of 0.25s, you can use:

ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_URL_HIGHLIGHTER_TIMEOUT=4

Dependencies

This requires curl to be installed and on your $PATH

** Currently this is only 200 - this will be configurable in the future