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Re:Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highl... by galaxyLogic on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:49PM (#20417970)
Which feature is that? I've been using WebStorm for some time and wishing for a feature that would highlight all matching parenthesis (), [] and {}.
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Re:Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highl... by _virtu on Friday July 12, 2019 @10:23AM (#20420943)
- plugin: rainbow brackets

- preference: semantic highlighting

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Re:Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highl... by galaxyLogic on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:00PM (#20423393)
Thanks. I tried it but it did not quite do what I needed so I uninstalled it. (I'm afraid of plugins in general taking performace away). It worked on JS-files but I have HTML-documents containing (example) JavaScript etc. code. Seems it did not react to parenthesis in them. Also even in plain JS-files you may have strings containing parenthesis.

Standard WebStorm already highlights matching parenthesis in JavaScript and does a good job at that.

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Re:Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highl... by soulofmischief on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:48PM (#20425533)
I don't use rainbow brackets, but I do use semantic highlighting. It's worth seeing if semantic highlighting would still be useful to you. It greatly helps scanning speed.
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