[Out of the box] Enable color previewer/picker for plain-text in a temporary new file

No issue here!! Just want to say that It took me an hour for a noob as so ordinary as me to read through the documents to do just a simple thing: Enable color previewer/picker for plain-text in a temporary new file Simply copy the below code into right handside of: Preference -> Packages Settings -> ColorHelper -> Settings That’s it! That’s all a noob needs to know to make life easier 😃 Well, in case you are as noob as me! lol

// Settings in here override those in "ColorHelper/color_helper.sublime-settings",

{
  "generic": {
        "allow_scanning": true,
        "scanning": ["-comment -string"],
        "color_class": "css-level-4"
    },

}

[facelessuser]

You can just run the following command from the command palette: Color Helper: Override View's Scanning. I’m not sure if I documented it though…

[facelessuser]

Override View's Scanning is view specific command that overrides a view on demand, so it cannot be applied globally.

Currently, there is no global way to force all views to show color previews except what is suggested in the OP. When doing what is done in the opening post, you don’t get too much language-specific control, so it’ll just show previews everywhere that are not found in strings or comments, but you can remove that requirement, or come up with a better generic rule if desired as well.

If there is a file type I prefer to have colors in all (or most of) the time, I simply add a new rule for that file type. If you truly want colors in all files, regardless of the language, then enabling scanning in generic via override is what you want. Then you can disable via Override View's Scanning only when you want.