Rainbow delimiters for Neovim

Warning

This plugin is deprecated! Please use rainbow-delimiters.nvim instead (GitHub mirror). This plugin is implemented as a module for nvim-treesitter, but nvim-treesitter has deprecated the module feature. Hence why I have created a new standalone plugin which does not depend on nvim-treesitter.

This Neovim plugin provides alternating syntax highlighting (“rainbow parentheses”) for Neovim, powered by Tree-sitter. The goal is to have a hackable plugin which allows for different configuration of queries and strategies, both globally and per file type. Users can override and extend the built-in defaults through their own configuration.

Installation and setup

Installation

The plugin depends on nvim-treesitter. Other than that it is installed like any other Neovim plugin.

Setup

Since this is a module for nvim-treesitter you need to setup everything in its configuration. Here is an example:

require('nvim-treesitter.configs').setup {
  rainbow = {
    enable = true,
    -- list of languages you want to disable the plugin for
    disable = { 'jsx', 'cpp' }, 
    -- Which query to use for finding delimiters
    query = 'rainbow-parens',
    -- Highlight the entire buffer all at once
    strategy = require('ts-rainbow').strategy.global,
  }
}

Please refer to the manual for more details.

Help wanted

There are only so many languages which I understand to the point that I can write queries for them. If you want support for a new language please consider contributing code. See the CONTRIBUTING for details.

Status of the plugin

Tree-sitter support in Neovim is still experimental. This plugin and its API should be considered stable insofar as breaking changes will only happen if changes to Neovim necessitates them.

Warning

There is currently a shortcoming in Neovim's Tree-sitter API which makes it so that only the first node of a capture group can be highlighted. Please see neovim/neovim#17099 for details. Affected queries:

• HTML rainbow-parens
• JSX (Javascript + React.js) rainbow-parens-react (affects React tags only)
• Python (rainbow-parens) (affects only the for ... in inside comprehensions)
• TSX (Typescript + React.js) rainbow-parens-react (affects React tags only)
• Vue.js rainbow-parens

Most of these are related to HTML-like tags, so you can use an alternative query instead. See the manual (:h ts-rainbow-query) for a list of extra queries.

Screenshots

Bash

C

Common Lisp

Java

LaTeX

Using the blocks query to highlight the entire \begin and \end instructions.

License

Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for details.

Attribution

This is a fork of a previous Neovim plugin, the original repository is available under https://sr.ht/~p00f/nvim-ts-rainbow/.

Attributions from the original author

Huge thanks to @vigoux, @theHamsta, @sogaiu, @bfredl and @sunjon and @steelsojka for all their help