RainbowBrackets

Introduction

RainbowBrackets uses the brackets and colors that you give in the settings file, searches and highlights brackets in file views. Brackets at different levels will be dyed with different colors according to the settings. Colors are gave in a list, and will be used repeatedly.

parentheses, braces, brackets are treated as brackets. brackets are configured in setting file, it means you can use OO as a opening bracket and CC as a close bracket. some characters will cause many match error, can't serve as brackets, such as <>.

Example

{ [ 【 OO OO 《《》OOxCC》 CC CC 】 ] }

Installation

Clone or download this repository to your Packages directory of Sublime Text. Note that the directory name should be the name of this repository.

If you have installed Package Control, press down ctrl+shift+p to get into the command palette, then, input the command pcip (Package Control: Install Package) and Enter to run it. Wait some time… After package infomations have been loaded remotely, input the name of this plugin RainbowBrackets, and press down Enter to install it.

Usage

Settings

Settings template

{
    "debug": false,

    "default_config": {
        "bracket_pairs": {
            "(": ")",
            "[": "]",
            "{": "}"
        },

        "coloring": false,

        "enabled": true,

        "ignored_scopes": [
            "comment",
            "string",
            "constant"
        ],

        "rainbow_colors": [
            "#FF0000", // level0
            "#FF6A00", // level1
            "#FFD800", // level2
            "#00FF00", // level3
            "#0094FF", // level4
            "#0041FF", // level5
            "#7D00E5"  // level6
        ],

        "mismatch_color": "#FF0000"
    },

    "syntax_specific": {
        "Scheme": {
            "extensions": [".scm", ".ss"],

            "ignored_scopes": [
                "comment", "string", "constant", "symbol"
            ]
        },

        "JSON": {
            "bracket_pairs": {
                "{": "}",
                "[": "]"
            },

            "extensions": [
                ".json",
                ".sublime-build",
                ".sublime-color-scheme",
                ".sublime-commands",
                ".sublime-keymap",
                ".sublime-menu",
                ".sublime-settings",
                ".sublime-theme",
            ],

            "ignored_scopes": [
                "comment", "string"
            ]
        }
    }
}

• ignored_scopes: to ignore brackets in some scopes(such as comment, string).

Commands

• Preferences: RainbowBrackets Settings
• RainbowBrackets: toggle debug
• RainbowBrackets: make rainbow
• RainbowBrackets: clear rainbow
• RainbowBrackets: clear color schemes

Key bindings

RainbowBrackets support fast opreating brackets, including select, remove and transform.

Screenshots

• Material color scheme, JSON file.
• Material color scheme, Scheme language
• Material lighter color scheme, Scheme language