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About this Visual Studio Code extension

This extension is for people that want a more "in the face" approach on highlighting content between symbols.
Symbols can be custom defined, the extension is not limited to only brackets. Sadly the extension name cannot be changed retroactively.
It provides a very configurable CSS style markup for the whole text between opening and closing symbols or only the symbols themselves.
There are preset options for all kinds of brackets.

Features

• Highlights pairs of symbols that are at the cursor or if the cursor is in the scope of the pair
• Symbols can be configured and support regular expressions
• Multiple cursors support
• Hotkey actions to jump to the highlight pairs
• Hotkey action to select all text between a highlight pair

Support

If you find this extension helpful, please consider supporting its development with a donation.
Your contributions help me maintain and improve the extension over time. Every bit is appreciated and keeps this project going.

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Upgrade to version 3.0.0

• Please refer to the chapter quick setup if you want to quickly get started with basic symbol support
• Please refer to the chapter custom symbols for more information how the new syntax for highlight symbols looks like
• The extension will try to use symbols with the old syntax, but be aware that it is deprecated and might not work as you expect it to
• Some settings were removed, which means there are no more symbols available via checkboxes => All symbols must now be configured within custom symbols. You can find a minimal example in the minimal example chapter.

Decoration examples

Example	Description
	Change background color
	Blur everything not in scope
	Highlight symbols and content differently
	Highlight symbols and content the same
	Highlight only the symbols
	Multiple cursor support
	Change the way the text looks

• ... Lots of additional possibilities. Just configure it the way you like it.

Hotkey actions:

• Jump to/out of highlighted opening and closing symbols
• Jump to the corresponding symbol pair
• Select the text between highlighted symbols

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

Setting	Description
BracketHighlighter.enableExtension	Enables the extension when set.
BracketHighlighter.maxLineSearchCount	The maximum amount of lines to search for a matching symbol. If nothing is found by this number, nothing will be highlighted.
BracketHighlighter.highlightScopeFromText	Allows highlighting when clicking inside of a scope. It will search for the scope of all enabled symbols.
BracketHighlighter.allowedLanguageIds	IDs which this extension will work on. Leaving this blank will enable it globally. Identifiers have to be separated by a comma. E.g. c,cpp,java.
BracketHighlighter.fontWeight	FontWeight in CSS style. E.g. 'bold'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.fontStyle	FontStyle in CSS style. E.g. 'oblique'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.letterSpacing	LetterSpacing in CSS style. E.g. '1px'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.outline	Outline in CSS style. E.g. '2px dashed blue'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.border	Border in CSS style. E.g. '4px dotted blue'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.backgroundColor	BackgroundColor in CSS style. E.g. 'coral'. If separate highlighting for symbols and content is used, this parameter is used for the content.
BracketHighlighter.textColor	Sets the color of the highlighted text.…