Make Sublime Text color common Bash commands (cp, mv, ...)

Question

By default Sublime Text colors Bash keywords like echo, for, time, and some more. However, I like how gEdit also colors cp, mv, and some others that Sublime Text doesn't highlight. How can I make Sublime Text recognize cp and mv (and maybe others) as keyboards and highlight them, for Bash script files (.sh)?

Answer 1

1st: Install the Package Control

Menu Tools -> the very bottom click on Install Package Control and wait a few seconds, it will tell you once successfully installed:

Package Control was successfully installed

(Restart sublime-text for that menu item to disappear.)

2nd: View the Command Palette

Menu Tools -> at the very top click on Command Palette.

3rd: Search for Package Control: Install Package

Just type into the search box:

Package Control: Install Package

And click on it.

4th: Install the PackageResourceViewer plugin

Just type into the search box:

PackageResourceViewer

And click on it.

It will notify to about successful installation very shortly in the very bottom status bar.

5th: Open the resource viewer

View the Command Palette again.

Just type into the search box:

PackageResourceViewer: Open Resource

And click on it.

6th: Open ShellScript resource

Just type into the search box:

ShellScript

And click on it.

7th: Open Bash sublime-syntax configuration file

Just type into the search box:

Bash.sublime-syntax

And click on it.

It will open a file.

8th: Search for support.function.builtin.shell

Search via CTRL+F for this code:

support.function.builtin.shell

9th: Edit the match line content to your liking

Out of the box this contains in the build 3126:

'(?<![-/])\b(?:alias|bg|bind|break|builtin|caller|cd|command|compgen|complete|dirs|disown|echo|enable|eval|exec|exit|false|fc|fg|getopts|hash|help|history|jobs|kill|let|logout|popd|printf|pushd|pwd|read|readonly|set|shift|shopt|source|suspend|test|times|trap|true|type|ulimit|umask|unalias|unset|wait)\b'

In later versions, I have tested build 3176, the file is structured heavily and there is no longer a single line to edit.

You will literally have to dig through the file and edit it to your liking.

10th: Save the file and continue working

CTRL+S

You don't need to restart sublime-text in order for the new settings to apply.

Answer 2

Command Palette -> PackageResourceViewer: Open Resource -> ShellScript -> Shell-Unix-Generic.tmLanguage

Scroll down to ~ line 1750 and add/edit support.function.builtin.shell

<dict>
  <key>match</key>
    <string>(?&lt;![-/])\b(?:alias|bg|bind|break|builtin|caller|cd|command|....)\b</string>
  <key>name</key>
    <string>support.function.builtin.shell</string>
</dict>