A Vim plugin that uses color to help identify matching parentheses and other paired delimiters according to their depth by using a different color for each successive level. For more information, please see the documentation.
Rainbow Parentheses is a feature that has been implemented nd re-implemented for vim before. This plugin modifies the techniques found in other plugins based on personal work flow and really doesn't add anything new.
This started out as a minor mirroring of Luo Chen's plugin on github but grew into something more of a plugin sandbox project.
The following is a list of other plugins that perform the same functionality and may or may not have influenced this plugin:
- Francisco Lopes - Rainbow Parentheses Improved (Github Fork of Luo Chen)
- Luo Chen - Rainbow Parentheses Improved
- Kien et al. - Better Rainbow Parentheses
- Martin Krischik - Rainbow Parenthesis Bundle
- John Gilmore - Rainbow Parenthesis
- Bram Moolenaar - Vim Help
The following is a useful list of discussions related to the functionality of the plugin: