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Felix Dombek
Asked: 2019-09-17 02:54:09 +0800 CST

Where do my autocompletion colors come from?

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When I ls in a directory, the colors are printed as in the top example. These colors are controlled with Edit → Preferences → Colors → Palette, which I have set to Solarized.

However, I have no idea why my autocompletion colors are completely different, as seen in the bottom example. Where do I set those? I use zsh, but had the same issue in bash, too.

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gnome-terminal bash colors zsh 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    According to this, add the following in your .zshrc file:

    zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors "${(@s.:.)LS_COLORS}"
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

    About the ls colors, I'm quoting this answer from Unix & Linux:

    ls takes its color settings from the environment variable LS_COLORS. dircolors is merely a convenient way to generate this environment variable. To have this environment variable take effect system-wide, put it in your shell's startup file.

    You can read more about dircolors here.

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