A kakoune plugin like rainbow.

Highlights pairs of parentheses in the same color, recursive pairs are highlighted in a different color.

Better alternatives

This plugin is a first prototype, later others have made faster and better implementations. It's better to use one of the below plugins instead of this one.

• https://github.com/listentolist/kakoune-rainbow
• https://github.com/Bodhizafa/kak-rainbow
• https://github.com/crizan/kak-rainbower

View the discuss thread here

Install

Add this plugin to your autoload folder.

Or use plug

plug 'jjk96/kakoune-rainbow'

Usage

execute :rainbow to highlight the current buffer once.

execute :rainbow-enable to highlight the current buffer continuously (note that this may be a bit laggy).

execute :rainbow-disable to remove the highlighter

Configuration

The rainbow_highlight_background option sets whether the background of the part between braces should be highlighted.

Customization

You can override the rainbow_faces option to set your own faces.

Example:

set-option global rainbow_faces "rgb:ff0000" "rgb:00ff00" "rgb:0000ff"

You can also override the rainbow_opening option to set the opening parentheses regex. Example:

set-option global rainbow_opening "[\[{(<]"