Editing Comparison of command shells (section)

=== Syntax highlighting ===
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A defining feature of the fish shell is built-in syntax highlighting, As the user types, text is colored to represent whether the input is a valid command or not (the executable exists and the user has permissions to run it), and valid file paths are underlined.<ref>{{Cite web |title=fish: Tutorial |url=https://fishshell.com/docs/3.0/tutorial.html#tut_syntax_highlighting |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=fishshell.com}}</ref>

An independent project offers syntax highlighting as an add-on to the Z Shell (zsh).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting |title=zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting: Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh |website=GitHub |access-date=2013-08-18}}</ref> This is not part of the shell, however.

PowerShell provides customizable syntax highlighting on the command line through the PSReadLine<ref name="PSReadLine"/> module. This module can be used with PowerShell v3.0+, and is bundled with v5.0 onwards. It is loaded by default in the command line host "powershell.exe" since v5.0.<ref>{{Cite web |last=sdwheeler |title=PSReadLine Module - PowerShell |url=https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadline/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=learn.microsoft.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

Take Command Console (TCC) offers syntax highlighting in the integrated environment.