A plugin for Kakoune which implements simple rainbow bracket highlighting.
It does not parse language features, and will thus highlight comments. See
./CHANGELOG.md for history.
cargo install kakeidoscope
To load the necessary options and wrapper functions for kakeidoscope,
place the below snippet into your configuration, which loads
/rc/kakeidoscope.kak. Note that the init subcommand requires the default
cargo feature, init.
evaluate-commands %sh{ kakeidoscope init }
The below snippet will additonally automatically highlight all windows.
hook global WinCreate '.*' kakeidoscope-enable-window
The below options are passed to kakeidoscope via the Kakoune command
kakeidoscope-highlight.
declare-option int kakeidoscope_faces red yellow green cyan blue magenta
declare-option regex kakeidoscope_regex '[()[\]{}]'
For pre-v1.0.0 configurations, change the kakeidoscope_pairs option to
a regex option, kakeidoscope_regex, as above. kakeidoscope_regex should
contain only characters in "()[]{}<>", as others will be ignored.
See kakeidoscope help highlight for detail on the binary's command-line
options.
- Given
{(])}, the{}and()pair would be highlighted (with{}as top-level and()as once-nested), and the]would be ignored, as it does not close a pair. - Given
{([)}, the{,(, and[would be highlighted (with{as top-level,(as once-nested, and[as twice-nested), and the)and}would be ignored, as neither closes a pair.
Note that this plugin's behavior is not identical to Kakoune's show-matching
highlighter, as we use stricter rules to find a pair.