Zsh not recognizing ls colors
I just was introduced to Zsh and so far I am really liking the customizability.
I use the following line to set up colors in .zshrc:
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ''This gives me these colors:
However when I use ls (I have aliased it to ls -G) I get the following colors:
Is there a way to make the Zsh list-colors the same as ls?
EDIT:
I have also tried setting the colors to the ls defaults from man ls without success (the colors still appear the same as the first image):
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors 'exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad' 5 Answers
The proper way of configuring colors with GNU ls is using LS_COLORS (see ). Now assuming you have LS_COLORS set, you should now use
# Zsh to use the same colors as ls
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS} BTW, the above works. Search for list-colors in the Zsh manual (i.e. man zshall). If you cannot get this to work, try running this (short LS_COLORS for convenience...):
LS_COLORS='no=00;37:fi=00:di=00;33:ln=04;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:'
export LS_COLORS
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}In my case, I also had to
export CLICOLOR=1to get ls to colorize its output, as documented in man ls.
Turns out zsh doesn't like the way ls stores its colors. You have to convert the colors into something zsh understands.
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors 'di=34:ln=35:so=32:pi=33:ex=31:bd=46;34:cd=43;34:su=41;30:sg=46;30:tw=42;30:ow=43;30'Default ls parameter --color=auto does colorize the output in zsh as well. Thus, there will be no need to use zstyle or CLICOLOR/LS_COLORS.
Simply adjust the following alias for your needs and append it to the .zshrc file.
alias ls="ls --color=auto"If you are on MacOS the BSD version of ls does not use LS_COLORS, but you can use the GNU version of ls instead:
brew install coreutils
alias ls="gls --color"From:
