Using zsh in ubuntu

[Reverendyz]

i am trying to follow strictly this INSTALL.md and use this syntax highlighting but am always getting:

zsh-syntax-highlighting: error: $region_highlight is not defined
zsh-syntax-highlighting: (Check whether zsh-syntax-highlighting was installed according to the instructions.)

I tryied almost every solution on google. Anyone's getting the same error?

[Reverendyz]

For any reason, after this error, the syntax highlighting worked ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[danielshahaf]

INSTALL.md lists several different ways to install on Ubuntu. How exactly did you install?

At any rate, that error message means _zsh_highlight was invoked as a plain function rather than as a zle widget. That's not supposed to happen under any installation method. Easiest way to debug is to print -r -- $funcstack > /dev/tty at the top of _zsh_highlight.