Text color on right of cursor

[purplefish32]

On my install (zsh, terminator, crunchbang/debian) the text on the right is not grey, it is the same color as the left.
I dont know if this is a bug or if this is just my setup but its really annoying.

[dreadatour]

You can define color with AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR global variable. Default value is 'fg=8'.
You need to set this variable after plugin load (e.g. after line source ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/autosuggestions.zsh in your zsh config).

For example, here is my config:

source ~/.zsh-autosuggestions/autosuggestions.zsh
AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR='fg=250'

zle-line-init() {
    zle autosuggest-start
}
zle -N zle-line-init

[pedro-nonfree]

I have the same problem [working on debian wheezy 7.4 system]
@dreadatour I tried your config and is not working
(also with several fg values: 8, 128, 256, etc.)
suggestions are not grey! the text is like in the left and is confusing

zsh --version
zsh 4.3.17 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

oh-my-zsh recent
fishy theme
plugins=(git colorize colored-man zsh-syntax-highlighting)

[EliFinkelshteyn]

Same problem here. Tried the config above, but still can't get the right to show up in a different color. Really frustrating. I'm on a mac (mavericks) running zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0). Tried deleting basically all else from my zshrc and still no go.

[mnapoli]

+1, same here even with:

AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR='fg=250'

[maksimr]

Try AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=cyan"

[pedro-nonfree]

@maksimr: thanks for this answer!

other colors you can write:
man zshall search for fg=colour

Now, approximating to the fish colors:
sudo apt-get install colortest-python

run: $ colortest-python -n
only 8 color support no?

If you try to change fg from 0 to 7 it works. How to expand the number of colors?
Add to .zshrc this line:
export TERM="xterm-256color"

And now the colortest-python shows you a lot of colors:
Now, the default color works: AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=8"

BUT it is not working with tty terminals (with no x server).
In that case, fish used another color, orange (fg=3). So know, we need to configure the color in different environments: tty and terminal emulator.

something like this:

if "terminal emulator in xserver" fg=8, else fg=3

I find in this article an example of this switch:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html

case $TERM in
    xterm*|rxvt*)
        #local TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]'
        AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=8"
        ;;
    *)
        #local TITLEBAR=""
        AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=3"
        ;;
esac

for fix this issue, the replacement should be this line https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/autosuggestions.zsh#L15 to:

case $TERM in
    xterm*|rxvt*)
        AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=8"
        ;;
    *)
        AUTOSUGGESTION_HIGHLIGHT_COLOR="fg=3"
        ;;
esac

and here:
https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/README.mkd#zsh-autosuggestions
say that you need to add to .zshrc:
export TERM="xterm-256color"

Optionally, the if or case, could detect the number colors of the system (how to do that?), to switch between 8 and 3, or remain in 3. 3 is when you have 7 or 8 colors. And put in the FAQ: you always see orange suggestion? put export TERM="xterm-256color" in .zshrc.

Let's see how solves this problem @tarruda

[fboulay]

Other way to solve this problem is to have the 256 zsh color plugin : https://github.com/chrissicool/zsh-256color

[uetchy]

👍 solved this problem with changing xterm to xterm-256color.

[Marvel77]

hey guys, I have mac os el capitan standart terminal and same issue, solved by setting terminal to xterm-256color and adding export ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=3" to the end of the .zshrc.
Just sharing in case it will help to somebody. Cheers!