In the latest updated of vscode they show the following image for bracket pair colorization:
From there I am interested in the dots that are display before / to the left of every bracket. What is the name of this function? how can I active it in vscode?
The answer for this is that this is called render white space and can be modified from the standard settings in vscode.
set to all to achieve the desired result.
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I have an issue with double clicking and highlighting in VS Code (v 1.71.2).
Sometimes the double-click does not select the word double-clicked.
In this screen recording you can see the issue:
Every time I used a double click.
First time the word "Condition" was not selected, but the whole string literal.
Then it was selected but the whole line was highlighted and when copying, only "Condition" would be pasted. That is correct.
The time that the word "Condition" was colored in fuchsia is the correct one but I want only that word to be highlighted instead of the entire string.
Anyone know the setting for this?
This issue was reported and fixed already, see:
Double Clicking On A Word Does Select The Entire String, Not Just The Word · Issue #125052 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub
Try to re-install the version 1.71.2 for release "August 2022 Recovery 2" and see if double-click selection works as expected.
Note that different click-counts have different outcomes:
double-click should select the word (using configured word-separators)
triple-click should select the entire string
quadruple-click should select the entire text
Configure word-separators with property editor.wordSeparators from preferences: Visual Studio Code—Customizing word separators
See also related: Double-click to select text does not always work · Issue #84319 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub.
To have finer control over selecting text you can use keyboard shortcuts like explained in Select all text between quotes in VS Code?.
I concluded that the issue was that the string was highlighted due to the cursor being placed somewhere inside the string.
To disable this, I disabled the Occurrences Highlight ("editor.occurrencesHighlight": false)
By doing so, the editor did not highlight open/closing tags though.
The (partial) solution to this was to install the extension Highlight Matching Tag
How to change like the images above?
Try using Bracket Pair Colorizer extension, it will generate colorized brackets like this :
When I place my cursor on the extremity of a block (represented by the white drawn cursor on the picture below) VSC highlight both the ending and the starting symbol of that block.
The red line on the picture represent the starting and the ending of that block. Where can I set the option for VSC to automatically use a background color to highlight the current selected block ? (I am really more of a visual guy and I like to feel where's my current locations when I am coding.)
You are going to need an extension to do that, it isn't built-in. Try:
Indented Block Highlighting
I am not sure it supports all languages but see if it works in your case.
Bracket-pair-colorizer does something similar but more subtle. See "bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showHorizontalScopeLine".
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And see How to change indent guide line color between brackets in VSCODE? - perhaps highlighting the active indent guide will be enough for you?
Using (in your settings.json):
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editorIndentGuide.background": "#bbb",
"editorIndentGuide.activeBackground": "#f00e0e",\
}
Is there a way to highlight brackets when the cursor is anywhere within the enclosing brackets? Default settings highlight it only when I place the cursor near the brackets.
Yes, there is now a way by default, in VSCode 1.40 (October 2019):
Improvements to bracket matching
Previously, VS Code would only highlight matching brackets when the cursor was next to a bracket character.
Now VS Code will always highlight enclosing brackets if they exist.
We have also adjusted our Go to Bracket and Select to Bracket actions to use enclosing brackets.
It is improved and supported natively with VSCode 1.60 (Aug. 2021):
Bracket pair colorization can be enabled by setting "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true.
All colors are themeable and up to six colors can be configured.
VS Code only supports bracket matching when the cursor is near the opening or closing bracket. Maybe an extension would help highlight the enclosing brackets wherever you are in the code but I haven't been able to find one.
If you just want to quickly find matching brackets, braces, parens, etc. you could try Bracket Pair Colorizer or Rainbow Brackets.
Also maybe you will like VSCode extension "Blockman", it highlights nested code blocks. (I am the author of Blockman)
With release 1.60 (September 2021), VS Code now has bracket pair colorization built in, indicating all matching brackets by color.
This feature can be enabled by adding this line to settings.json:
"editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true
I am using Version: 1.63.2(MacOS). Default bracket highlight feature was not working for me. In case, someone face similar issue, set it true.
"editor.matchBrackets": true,
I'm a long-time eclipse user looking to use netbeans now that I've tried netbeans out a bit. I mostly like what I see, except there's a few aesthetics missing. Anyone have ideas on if the following are available in NetBeans?:
Eclipse highlights modified & inserted lines in the left margin / gutter
Eclipse highlights the currently edited function in the left margin / gutter
Eclipse highlights TODO / FIXME comments in the right margin
For example:
alt text http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5471/forso.png
... any ideas on how I can get Netbeans to do this sort if stuff ?
If your project is connected to source control netbeans will show added lines with a green block at the beginning of the line, modified lines with a blue block, and deleted lines with a red arrow. It also marks these in the right margin/gutter. This is based off of compared to last commit, not last save however.
As for the other two I could not find a way to implement them but I may just be missing something