command to toggle indent rainbows?

[jots]

Is it feasible to hook up a keystroke to toggle the rainbows on and off?

[oderwat]

Whats the reasoning behind it: Aesthetics or performance?

[obahareth]

I need this as well, for aesthetic reasons. Indent rainbow is very helpful, but I don't need it all of the time. Sometimes all the colors can get distracting.

[Ovyerus]

I agree. I only really need this when I'm cleaning up loose indents or working with something like Python, and having a command to easily toggle this on and off would be a major quality of life improvement IMO.

[oderwat]

A first step would be to only activate it for the languages you want to use it for.

"indentRainbow.includedLanguages": ["python", "json"]

Or disable it for some:

"indentRainbow.excludedLanguages": ["plaintext"]

Another way could be using a hotkey to toggle settings. This can be done with the "toggle" extension.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rebornix.toggle

And set up a Key similar to this:

                              {
                                "key": "F4",
                                "command": "toggle",
                                "when": "editorTextFocus",
                                "args": {
                                  "id": "indentRainbow",
                                  "value": [
                                    {
                                      "indentRainbow.includedLanguages": []
                                    },
                                    {
                                      "indentRainbow.includedLanguages": ["none"]
                                    },
                                  ]
                                }
                              }

But this will only update the window if the editor switches between files (indent-rainbow does not check it's settings for every keypress).

I agree that a hotkey which lets you switch between "configured languages", "all" and "none" is useful and may implement this "some day".