Bracket Match

[umar]

Is it possible to match brackets like this in Sublime Text 3? if anyone know how to do it please help … thanks in advance

[facelessuser]

It’s possible. BracketHighlighter allows for doing custom brackets and such. I purposely make it so it doesn’t highlight the entire tag, but you could take the existing tag bh_plugin and adjust it to do the entire tag.

[umar]

Hey, thanks for your reply but i already tried this plugin and it didn’t give me the effect i want (as shown in attached image)

[facelessuser]

I mentioned that it doesn’t do it, but you could modify the tag module to do so locally.

[facelessuser]

BH let’s you write your own modules, so you can override the tag one that is used.

[michaelblyons]

This won’t quite have the same effect, but you could customize your color scheme and tweak the tag highlighting settings:

{
    "globals": {
        "tags_foreground": "#FF0000",
    }
}

Edit: FWIW, I also use BracketHighlighter in addition to color scheme tweaks.

[facelessuser]

Steps to alter BH, if you wanted to go this route:

• Copy the following module to User/bh_modules/tags.py: https://github.com/facelessuser/BracketHighlighter/blob/master/bh_modules/tags.py

• Modify this function like so:

  def highlighting(view, name, style, left, right):
      """Highlight only the tag name."""
      tag_settings = sublime.load_settings("bh_tag.sublime-settings")
      match_style = tag_settings.get("tag_style", {}).get(last_mode, None)
      # if match_style is not None and style == match_style:
      #     tag_name = tag_settings.get('tag_name', {}).get(last_mode, r'[\w\:\.\-]+')
      #     if left is not None:
      #         region = view.find(tag_name, left.begin)
      #         left = left.move(region.begin(), region.end())
      #     if right is not None:
      #         region = view.find(tag_name, right.begin)
      #         right = right.move(region.begin(), region.end())
      return left, right
      ```
  
  

• Then override the original module with your custom module in bh_core.sublime-settings

      "user_brackets": [
          {
              "name": "angle",
              "plugin_library": "User.bh_modules.tags"
          },
      ],
  

• Update highlight style for tag in bh_core.sublime-settings:

  // Define region highlight styles
  "user_bracket_styles": {
      "tag": {
          "style": "solid"
      }
  }