diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 7674c96f..fcd5aa7e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "completions"]
 	path = completions
 	url = https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions.git
+[submodule "plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting"]
+	path = plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
+	url = https://github.com/jedahan/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git
diff --git a/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting b/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..f95fc550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f95fc550e8dd48825b076d9546306bddc022db54