# Neovim treesitter based shell syntax highlighting for command literals
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379
**Category:** Tooling
**Tags:** neovim
**Created:** [July 23, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379 "2024-07-23T10:24:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@kdheepak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kdheepak)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/1 "2024-07-23T10:24:07Z")
With neovim and treesitter installed, you can set the syntax highlighting for a language inside another language.
For example, for `command_literals`, you can make the language `"bash"` and you’ll get syntax highlighting (before and after screenshots below):
I’ve added this feature to [`kdheepak/ts-julia-actions`](https://github.com/kdheepak/ts-julia-actions/commit/280900a61d0b2b3377170cdf2a1afd99781b0a45). You can add the same manually to your local configuration or with the `lazy.nvim` package manager you can do the following:
```lua
return {
"kdheepak/ts-julia-actions",
dependencies = {
"nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
build = ":TSUpdate",
config = function()
require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
ensure_installed = { "julia" },
}
end,
},
}
```
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### Author:  [@caleb-allen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/caleb-allen)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/2 "2024-07-23T13:40:25Z")
This is wonderful!
Is it possible to get syntax highlighting of the markdown in docstrings using this?
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### Author:  [@sbuercklin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbuercklin)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/3 "2024-07-23T15:03:02Z")
> [@caleb-allen](#):
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> Is it possible to get syntax highlighting of the markdown in docstrings using this?
I’m pretty sure this already works:
But I don’t actually know if this is coming from the LSP highlighting, TS definition, or Julia language plugin right now
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### Author:  [@kdheepak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kdheepak)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/4 "2024-07-23T15:31:12Z")
It already works!
> [@sbuercklin](#):
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> But I don’t actually know if this is coming from the LSP highlighting, TS definition, or Julia language plugin right now
It comes from treesitter:
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### Author:  [@caleb-allen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/caleb-allen)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/5 "2024-07-23T17:43:15Z")
> [@kdheepak](#):
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> It already works!
Oh, fantastic! I clearly need to revisit my nvim treesitter configuration, haven’t used it in well over a year. Thank you for your great work on this @kdheepak!
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### Author:  [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/6 "2024-07-23T19:53:00Z")
I asked the same thing on slack and in my case I just had to make sure the markdown parser was installed too.
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### Author:  [@kdheepak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kdheepak)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/neovim-treesitter-based-shell-syntax-highlighting-for-command-literals/117379/7 "2024-07-24T00:19:35Z")
I also added [markdown codeblocks to this package](https://github.com/kdheepak/ts-julia-actions/commit/45d0c88f930e77b25edee918bffe407dee6444ec) (before and after screenshot below):
I made a PR to upstream these two features:
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> This PR adds markdown syntax highlighting and bash command line syntax highlight…ing for the appropriate Julia expressions.
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> bash syntax highlighting:
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> !\[image\](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5d7c7037-f67f-4307-91de-ae3b8a1679bc)
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> markdown syntax highlighting:
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> !\[image\](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6558341f-df3e-439c-a245-6676e54e6d7f)
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> This PR also adds a comment for each injection.