How to change style of matched brackets in Sublime Text 2 / 3?

Question

It\'s just underlining the matched brackets, Is it possible to make it more useful like changing brackets colour or highlighting the line of brackets?

Answer 1

Bracket color & other visibility preferences can be modified without the use of a plugin.   Below is a method for implementing such changes natively.

Note: I recently drafted this answer @ the SublimeText Forum.   There is a similar (unaccepted) answer here, but I have included some unmentioned details & visual reference.

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EXAMPLE

This is my personal configuration:

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SETTINGS

Below are all of my visibility related settings.

As you can see in the examples: brackets settings dictate the color of bracket pairs if a caret is placed ON a bracket, whereas bracketContents settings dictate the color of bracket pairs if a caret is placed WITHIN a set of brackets.

My bracketContentsOptions is set to underline, but you can change it to foreground if you want it to be highlighted during both instances.

 

@ Preferences.sublime-settings

"always_show_minimap_viewport" : true,
"caret_extra_bottom"           : 3,
"caret_extra_top"              : 3,
"caret_extra_width"            : 1,
"caret_style"                  : "phase",
"draw_minimap_border"          : true,
"fade_fold_buttons"            : false,
"fold_buttons"                 : true,
"highlight_line"               : true,
"highlight_modified_tabs"      : true,
"line_numbers"                 : true,
"match_brackets"               : true,
"match_brackets_angle"         : true,
"match_brackets_braces"        : true,
"match_brackets_content"       : true,
"match_brackets_square"        : true,
"match_selection"              : true,
"match_tags"                   : true,
"overlay_scroll_bars"          : "enabled",

@ YourColorScheme.tmTheme

    

        guide
        #14191F

        stackGuide
        #14191F

        activeGuide
        #2E4589

    

        bracketsForeground
        #D80E64

        bracketsOptions
        foreground

        bracketContentsForeground
        #D80E64

        bracketContentsOptions
        underline

    

        caret
        #D80E64

        lineHighlight
        #121522

        selection
        #1D416B

        selectionForeground
        #bbccff

        selectionBorder
        #4D71FF

        inactiveSelection
        #1D416B

        inactiveSelectionForeground
        #bbccff

    

        findHighlight
        #0BD0AC

        findHighlightForeground
        #000000