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Expand Up @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ To use this highlighter, associate patterns with styles in the

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][zshzle-Character-Highlighting].
manual page][zshzle-Character-Highlighting]. Note: if you would like to define this
variable before you source zsh-syntax-highlighting, you will need to declare it first with:
`typeset -gA ZSH_HIGHLIGHT_PATTERNS`.

[zshzle-Character-Highlighting]: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html#Character-Highlighting