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jcberquist / sublimetext-cfml

CFML (ColdFusion and Lucee) package for Sublime Text
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Add multi-colored curly brackets #124

Closed redtopia closed 5 years ago

redtopia commented 5 years ago

I just saw a screenshot of this feature in an ms code plugin and it seems like an amazing feature! Makes it easy to visually identify ends of your blocks.

jcberquist commented 5 years ago

This sounds interesting, but I don't think it is something I would implement in this package.

I think it is possible to give brackets/braces distinct colors by using the add_regions feature of the sublime View class, but it would be a bit hacky since the view regions are not really there to modify color schemes. I found a package Rainbowth that does this - though it looks to me to be a bit out of date in terms of how it handles color schemes.

Other approaches: I presume you have already tried a package like BracketHighlighter? You might also try looking at the section on brackets in the color scheme documentation: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/color_schemes.html#global_settings-brackets It is easy with the latest builds of ST3 to override parts of color schemes without replacing all of them, so you could update just the bracket settings of your color scheme to make the matching bracket highlighting used in ST by default more visible.

redtopia commented 5 years ago

Thanks for considering it... yea, I can see how this is outside of the scope of a cfml plugin. Thanks for the links.