zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Highlight unquoted parameter expansions

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#509 opened on Mar 12, 2018

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Description

I noticed that variables are highlighted only in double quotes.

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What about non-quoted ones?

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Study the current implementation for double quoted parameter expansions in the zsh syntax highlighting codebase and extend it to handle unquoted parameter expansions similarly.
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