More than 6 colors in Bracket Pair Colorization? (Rainbow?)

Hi!

First of all I appreciate the work done to improve this feature and make it so much more performant 😃

Today I wanted to migrate to the new built-in bracket colorization feature but realized it doesn’t support the color options of the original plugin. As far as I understand the VS Code implementation supports up to 6 colors, but is there any reason not to support the array configuration of the original plugin?

It would be beautiful, so I can keep using my rainbow brackets with the added performance improvement! 😄

Here’s my config:

    "bracketPairColorizer.colorMode": "Consecutive",
    "bracketPairColorizer.showBracketsInRuler": true,
    "bracketPairColorizer.showBracketsInGutter": true,
    "bracketPairColorizer.consecutivePairColors": [
        "()",
        "[]",
        "{}",
        [
            "#ff0000",
            "#ff8000",
            "#ffbf00",
            "#ffff00",
            "#bfff00",
            "#00ff00",
            "#00ffbf",
            "#00ffff",
            "#00bfff",
            "#0080ff",
            "#0066ff",
            "#0000ff",
            "#8000ff",
            "#bf00ff",
            "#ff00ff",
            "#ff00bf",
            "#ff0080"
        ],
        "White"
    ],

And here’s the beautiful result:

I would really appreciate this 👍🏻

[avicularian]

The colour scheme in the OP is beautiful—props for sharing!

Programming in highly nested languages like any Lisp, or Dart with Flutter, is painful without rainbow bracket colour schemes. More than 6 colours is a necessity. I usually use 20—and it makes the code much, much easier to write. This needless, arbitrary limitation has had so many of us tearing our hair out in frustration.

My kakoune editor can do this in a plug-in that takes roughly a page of code, why can’t the immensely popular VSCode?

Fix it. And please don’t overcomplicate things.

Add the following settings:

editorBracketHighlight.foreground1
editorBracketHighlight.foreground2
editorBracketHighlight.foreground3
editorBracketHighlight.foreground4
editorBracketHighlight.foreground5
editorBracketHighlight.foreground6
editorBracketHighlight.foreground7
editorBracketHighlight.foreground8
...
editorBracketHighlight.foreground18
editorBracketHighlight.foreground19
editorBracketHighlight.foreground20

Resolve the (tiresome, interminably complicated) issue about lists in setting files later. Add this simple, easy-to-implement functionality that users of nested languages are lacking now.

I’ll send the PR if that’s a problem.

[avicularian]

Again:

• The limit is arbitrary
• 6 colours is clearly not enough
• Everyone who’s experienced writing with over 6 colours has much preferred it
• It was in the original addon, which you effectively killed
• The effort needed to add more colours is almost nil
• It’s necessary for Flutter, Lisp, and similar highly nested programming systems (and no, being >6 layers deep does NOT mean your style is poor! No one would make the same claims about HTML, and Flutter is the same, a declarative system)

Oh well, due to the complete non-configurability of VSCode, and constant bad aesthetic decisions, I’ll be dropping it.