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Daniel Shahaf 810c2dcede Use the new, unreleased zsh 'memo=' feature to remove only our own entries from $region_highlight. 
Fixes #418 (interoperability issue with other plugins).
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README.md

zsh-syntax-highlighting / highlighters / regexp

This is the regexp highlighter, that highlights user-defined regular expressions. It's similar to the pattern highlighter, but allows more complex patterns.

How to tweak it

To use this highlighter, associate regular expressions with styles in the ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_REGEXP associative array, for example in ~/.zshrc:

typeset -A ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_REGEXP
ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_REGEXP+=('\bsudo\b' fg=123,bold)

This will highlight "sudo" only as a complete word, i.e., "sudo cmd", but not "sudoedit"

The syntax for values is the same as the syntax of "types of highlighting" of the zsh builtin $zle_highlight array, which is documented in the zshzle(1) manual page.

See also: regular expressions tutorial, zsh regexp operator =~ in the zshmisc(1) manual page