This is a cheat sheet for how to perform various actions to ZSH, which can be tricky to find on the web as the syntax is not intuitive and it is generally not very well-documented.
| Description | Syntax |
|---|---|
| Get the length of a string | ${#VARNAME} |
| Get a single character | ${VARNAME[index]} |
| # for background in 16 color terminal, valid background colors include: | |
| # base03, bg, black, any of the non brights | |
| # style notes: | |
| # when bg=235, that's a highlighted message | |
| # normal bg=233 | |
| # basic colors --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| # color normal brightyellow default | |
| color error color196 color235 # message line error text |