This ZSH plugin enhances the terminal environment with 256 colors. It looks at the chosen TERM environment variable and sees if there is respective (n-)curses' termcap/terminfo descriptors for 256 colors available. The result is a multicolor terminal, if available.

If you use Antigen, add the following line to your plugins list:

antigen bundle chrissicool/zsh-256color

If you use Oh-My-Zsh, add zsh-256color to your plugins list and clone this repository to your $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins directory:

$ ( cd $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins && git clone https://github.com/chrissicool/zsh-256color )

If you're using Zgen, add

zgen load chrissicool/zsh-256color

to your .zshrc with your other zgen plugin load commands.

If you're using Zplugin, add

zplugin light "chrissicool/zsh-256color"

to your .zshrc with your other zplugin load commands.

If the environment variable $ZSH_256COLOR_DEBUG is set to any value when the plugin loads, some debugging information is printed to stderr. This is useful to find out which strategy was successful to set a 256 colors terminal.