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+# colorize
+
+With this plugin you can syntax-highlight file contents of over 300 supported languages and other text formats.
+
+Colorize will highlight the content based on the filename extension. If it can't find a syntax-highlighting
+method for a given extension, it will try to find one by looking at the file contents. If no highlight method
+is found it will just cat the file normally, without syntax highlighting.
+
+## Setup
+
+To use it, add colorize to the plugins array of your `~/.zshrc` file:
+```
+plugins=(... colorize)
+```
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Requirements
+
+This plugin requires that at least one of the following tools is installed:
+
+* [Chroma](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma)
+* [Pygments](https://pygments.org/download/)
+
+### Colorize tool
+
+Colorize supports `pygmentize` and `chroma` as syntax highlighter. By default colorize uses `pygmentize` unless it's not installed and `chroma` is. This can be overridden by the `ZSH_COLORIZE_TOOL` environment variable:
+
+```
+ZSH_COLORIZE_TOOL=chroma
+```
+
+### Styles
+
+Pygments offers multiple styles. By default, the `default` style is used, but you can choose another theme by setting the `ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE` environment variable:
+
+```
+ZSH_COLORIZE_STYLE="colorful"
+```
+
+### Chroma Formatter Settings
+
+Chroma supports terminal output in 8 color, 256 color, and true-color. If you need to change the default terminal output style from the standard 8 color output, set the `ZSH_COLORIZE_CHROMA_FORMATTER` environment variable:
+
+```
+ZSH_COLORIZE_CHROMA_FORMATTER=terminal256
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+* `ccat <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided).
+ If no files are passed it will colorize the standard input.
+
+* `cless [less-options] <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided) and open less.
+ If no files are passed it will colorize the standard input.
+ The LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE will be overwritten for this to work, but only in a local scope.