Currently, the bracket pair characters can only be changed on a per-filename basis. This is problematic for panels that display text, such as the LSP log panel, where I want triangle brackets ("<>") colored in my C++ source file but just curly brackets ("{}") in the LSP panel.

Hi, my plugin stopped working without any manual update. I removed and installed it again, but it still does not work.

I get the following error popup:

RainbowBrackets: error in loading settings.

Is there a good solution for it? Thank you in advance.

Is it feasible to add an option that allows to only highlight a pair of brackets if they are on different visible lines (by visible I mean that line may have either soft or hard break)?
This plugin can greatly improve readability when dealing with nested brackets that appear on different lines, but if brackets are on the same line then making them rainbow just adds a color noise that rather distracts than helps.

like this:
saturation has changed to very hight. how to fix it ? 😭

Before installing RainbowBrackets:

After:

(Both of these are with the default ST3 color scheme of Monokai active.)

Note the change in colors of Git icons in sidebar, and green diff market in the gutter.

ST3 documentation says

the color of the badges will…adapt to the closest hue in the active color scheme.

My guess is the logic is that there's some "canonical" color for these icons, and it does some color diffing algorithm to find the closest in the active theme. However, because of the way RainbowBrackets extends the active theme with rainbow colors (see Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Color Schemes/RainbowBracket/[NameOfCurrentTheme].sublime-color-scheme), it ends up selecting really garish bright colors for these git icons.

Is there any setting or way to have RainbowBrackets add the colors it needs for brackets, but have ST3 stick with the original color scheme's colors for git icons?

It looks like the syntax of a given file is only read once when opening, and the plugin doesn't update if the syntax is changed. E.g. if I have a plain text file that I change to C++, I need to run RainbowBrackets: Close Plugin followed by RainbowBrackets: Setup Plugin on the file to refresh and apply my scheme-specific coloring.

I enabled vintage mode (sim vim), I found that the block caret (normal mode) is not showing on brackets, it looks like showing underneath the brackets. (version 3.2.0)

Hi!

Nice plugin!
But this is what I get with my LaTeX macros.
I tried to delete/add characters but I have no idea why it is so.

\newcommand{\helpangles}[1]{
	\foreach \a in {0,5,...,355} \draw[help lines] (#1.center) -- (#1.\a) -- ++(\a:0.5) node[font=\tiny] {\a};
}

\tikzset{%
	show curve controls/.style={
		postaction={
			decoration={
				show path construction,
				curveto code={
					\draw [blue,very thin]
					(\tikzinputsegmentfirst) -- (\tikzinputsegmentsupporta)
					(\tikzinputsegmentlast) -- (\tikzinputsegmentsupportb);
					\fill [red, opacity=0.5]
					(\tikzinputsegmentsupporta) circle [radius=.5ex]
					(\tikzinputsegmentsupportb) circle [radius=.5ex];
				}
			},
			decorate
}}}

On startup, I get the following error in failing to load RainbowBrackets:

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./python3.8/threading.py", line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Package Control.sublime-package\package_control/package_cleanup.py", line 108, in run
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Package Control.sublime-package\package_control/package_manager.py", line 1346, in cleanup_libraries
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Package Control.sublime-package\package_control/package_manager.py", line 963, in find_orphaned_libraries
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\Package Control.sublime-package\package_control/library.py", line 155, in list_unmanaged
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '\\\\?\\C:\\Users\\pluto\\AppData\\Roaming\\Sublime Text\\Lib\\python33\\PyYAML-5.1.1.dist-info\\INSTALLER'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 975, in on_activated
    run_view_callbacks('on_activated', view_id)
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 741, in run_view_callbacks
    callback(v, *args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 162, in profiler
    return event_handler(*args)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 467, in on_activated
    self.check_view_load_listener(view)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 412, in check_view_load_listener
    listener = cls.check_view_add_listener(view)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 379, in check_view_add_listener
    syntax = cls.get_view_syntax(view) or "<default>"
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 392, in get_view_syntax
    syntax = view.syntax().name
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 975, in on_activated
    run_view_callbacks('on_activated', view_id)
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 741, in run_view_callbacks
    callback(v, *args)
  File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 4\Lib\python38\sublime_plugin.py", line 162, in profiler
    return event_handler(*args)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 467, in on_activated
    self.check_view_load_listener(view)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 412, in check_view_load_listener
    listener = cls.check_view_add_listener(view)
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 379, in check_view_add_listener
    syntax = cls.get_view_syntax(view) or "<default>"
  File "C:\Users\pluto\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 392, in get_view_syntax
    syntax = view.syntax().name
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

On looking at the sublime API reference, it seems the view.syntax() function can return None as well, which is not handled here

Here is my RainbowBrackets.sublime-settings.
Files with extension ".cmd" are working ok, but no rainbow colors in .txt files.
How use this plugin for ascii files?

{
"languages": {
"plaintext": {
"extensions": ["txt"],
"mode":"all"
},
"dosbatch": {
"extensions": ["cmd"],
"mode": "all",
}
}
}

When adding < and > (as blow) to the settings file I get the following highlighting in python:

        "pairs": {
            "(": ")",
            "[": "]",
            "{": "}",
            "<": ">"
        },

            "python": {
                "opening": ["(", "[", "{", "<"],
                "ignored_scopes": [
                    "comment", "string"
                ]
            },

When you enable highlight_line to true in the sublime settings, this happens

I guess it retrieves the wrong background color for text?

Bug

I believe this is #21 again.

My Sublime Text color scheme keeps changing from whatever I've defined it to be during startup, and into Mariana. The color scheme (CS) only changes on a per buffer basis. Some keep my CS, others are in mariana.

Moreover, it causes ST4 to disable other packages I use on a regular basis which is even more annoying.
This may be conflict with A File Icon which updates on start, but I'm not sure, given this only updates once per day.

ST4 startup console log

reloading plugin RainbowBrackets.main
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_plugin.py", line 125, in reload_plugin
m = importlib.import_module(modulename)
File "./python3.3/importlib/init.py", line 90, in import_module
File "", line 1584, in _gcd_import
File "", line 1565, in _find_and_load
File "", line 1532, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_plugin.py", line 1199, in load_module
exec(compile(source, source_path, 'exec'), mod.dict)
File "C:\Users\Mehmet\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 3\Installed Packages\RainbowBrackets.sublime-package\main.py", line 199
f"loaded file: {(self.view.file_name() or 'untitled')}",
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hello,
I recently found this extension and its amasing. But i found one small issue in javascript.

Here is my config for the language:

        "php-js": {
            "extensions": [
                "php",
                "js",
                "jsx"
            ],
            "mode": "all"
        },

Also, when I want to ignore the curly brackets "!brackets": ["("], i get this

Am I doing something wrong?

Hi, thanks for the very useful plugin. Is there a keyboard shortcut for make/clear rainbow? Or is is possible to add one to Sublime's key bindings? I couldn't work out how to do it.

It would be awesome that we would have an option to match brackets by default on open files and keep updating those matches on changes.

Hi @absop, thanks for this sweet plugin :-)

Do you think it'd be possible to add an "nesting_level"/"start_level" for the rainbows?
I just ask since generally like the common syntax highlighting as it is not disruptive etc. But on nested brackets this plugin of course shows its strength. So, I'd like to keep it off for the first level but would like to see it starting with the second.

Thanks for any feedback on this. Cheers!

i have one dark theme package installed, looks very good.

but when your plugin creates this file: ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/Color Schemes/RainbowBrackets/One Dark.sublime-color-scheme

the default one dark color scheme is overridden with this file which looks like this:

{
    "name": "One Dark",
    "author": "https://github.com/absop/RainbowBrackets",
    "variables": {},
    "globals": {},
    "rules": [
        {
            "scope": "JSON.mismatch.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c34"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l0.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l1.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF6A00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l2.rb",
            "foreground": "#FFD800",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l3.rb",
            "foreground": "#00FF00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l4.rb",
            "foreground": "#0094FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l5.rb",
            "foreground": "#0041FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "JSON.l6.rb",
            "foreground": "#7D00E5",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.mismatch.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c34"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l0.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l1.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF6A00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l2.rb",
            "foreground": "#FFD800",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l3.rb",
            "foreground": "#00FF00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l4.rb",
            "foreground": "#0094FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l5.rb",
            "foreground": "#0041FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "Scheme.l6.rb",
            "foreground": "#7D00E5",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.mismatch.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c34"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l0.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF0000",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l1.rb",
            "foreground": "#FF6A00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l2.rb",
            "foreground": "#FFD800",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l3.rb",
            "foreground": "#00FF00",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l4.rb",
            "foreground": "#0094FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l5.rb",
            "foreground": "#0041FF",
            "background": "#282c35"
        },
        {
            "scope": "<default>.l6.rb",
            "foreground": "#7D00E5",
            "background": "#282c35"
        }
    ]
}

this file has horrible colors. i tried to remove the file 2 times in a row. its created automatically by the plugin ( i guess ).

why would make this?

how do i get rid of this?

When I build a new file and save it with .json suffix, Rainbowbrackets don't works.

Test cases:

1. adjacent nested parentheses in Shell scripts

((I))

2. parentheses at the end of the file

(I)

All,

I just installed this plugin for Sublime Text 4, and I cannot seem to get brackets brackets to show up. I tried with three different languages (Terraform, Groovy, and Rust) all of them don't seem to be working.

Here is an example of Terraform & Rust code without rainbow brackets.

• Mike D.

I use the REPL a lot while coding, and I have found that after evaluating around ~10 forms on the REPL I start to get a lot of delay from the evaluation, whereas without this plugin there is no delay.

I haven't tried to dig for why that happens, just wanted to leave some feedback. The plugin works, and looks very good, but for those that need SublimeREPL it is unusable.

Cheers.

• EDIT: I use it with Clojure, which means there are lots and lots of brackets to highlight.

Love the coloured brackets though! Thank you for the plugin.

Thanks.

Recent versions of RainbowBrackets don't work in ST3, since they rely on Python 3.8 features and new ST4 APIs. However, they aren't marked as being compatible only with ST 4.x in the package control index, so pcon will attempt to update to 4.2.0 even if you're running ST3, breaking the plugin.

You can still manually downgrade, but it would be better to properly annotate each release with the ST versions it supports so that pcon's auto-update doesn't install incompatible versions.

Thanks for creating such a nice plugin.
I have an issue. just a few minutes ago. my ST was using very high amount of cpu. i saw the ST console and saw rainbowbracket making color cahce from color scheme. i restarted ST then the issue was resolved.

Hi there,

I see a strange behavior with syntax specific color schemes in combination with RainbowBrackets.
The details are described in:
sublimehq/sublime_text#4000
I am yet not sure if it is only my setup but the problem described stopped reproducible when I disable the RB package.

Is someone else able to reproduce it?

Cheers and thanks for all the rainbows! :)

The assigned keys for replacing the brackets around the cursors

ctrl+alt+0
ctrl+alt+]
ctrl+alt+[

removes the keys ] } and \ on QWERTZ keyboards making them not working any more

Hi there. I could have sworn this package used to apply rainbow brackets when opening a file. Now it seems like I have to do it manually. Is there a way to get the bracket coloring to apply automatically again?

My config looks like this:

{
  "debug": true,
  "languages":
  {
    "javascript":
    {
      "extensions":
      [
        "js",
        "jsx"
      ],
      "mode": "all"
    }
  },
  "rainbow_colors":
  {
    "matched":
    [
      "#FE8F95",
      "#F9C189",
      "#C2ECA2",
      "#78E6F4",
      "#EAA1FE"
    ],
    "unmatched": "#CCCCCC"
  }
}