README.md

Rainbow brackets plugin for Kakoune

This plugin provides rainbow brackets highlighting

Installation

Clone the repository into the autoload directory or if you use plug.kak, just put this into your kakrc:

plug "listentolist/kakoune-rainbow" domain "gitlab.com" config %{
    require-module rainbow
    # suggested mapping
    # map global user r ": rainbow<ret>" -docstring "rainbow brackets"
    # map global user R ": rmhl window/ranges_rainbow_specs<ret>" \
    #     -docstring "remove rainbow highlighter"
}

You need to have GNU Guile and the connect.kak plugin installed.

Commands

• rainbow

Options

• rainbow_colors
• rainbow_opening, default: '(' '[' '{'
• rainbow_closing, default: ')' ']' '}'
• rainbow_regex, regex for matching the brackets; default: '(?<!#\\)[{}\[\]()]'
• regexes that should be excluded:
  • rainbow_string, default: '(?<!#\\)"([^"]|\\")*(?<!\\)"'
  • rainbow_comment_line, default '(?<!#\\);[^\n]*'
  • rainbow_comment_block, default ''
• options used for creating the range-specs for highlighting
  • rainbow_specs
  • rainbow_selections
  • rainbow_ranges

Usage

Just run rainbow. The default configuration is designed for scheme code. But you can change the options for other filetypes.