Add option to enable zsh-syntax-highlighting

[davegallant]

Issue description

Exposing a enableSyntaxHighlighting to enable zsh-syntax-highlighting would be convenient.

This is something that is in nixos/modules/program/zsh.

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Technical details

I am new to nix, but was able to workaround this by the following:

programs.zsh = {
  enable = true;

  localVariables = {
    ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX = "true";
  };

  initExtra = ''
    source ${pkgs.zsh-syntax-highlighting}/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
  '';

  plugins = [
    {
      name = "syntax-highlighting";
      src = "${pkgs.zsh-syntax-highlighting}/share/zsh/site-functions";
    }
  ];
};

[ShrykeWindgrace]

Relevant recent issue: #1251 . It has a similar workaround for nixpkgs.zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting, but without extra steps in initExtra

[davegallant]

Relevant recent issue: #1251 . It has a similar workaround for nixpkgs.zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting, but without extra steps in initExtra

Was unaware of this other highlighter. Works well also :)

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