. Agreed the boxes should be removed and replace with perhaps background coloring. The problem is the vertical box lines look too much like the cursor itself, making it difficult to find your cursor in cases where it's overlapping a box line. Yes, I know the cursor is bold and you can still find it, but I find it blends in more than it should. Allow customization on the matching bracket/parenthesis pairs. The boxes aren't enough to identify the matching pairs, as others have mentioned. You can reference how Notepad does it.
Jul 19, 2017 - VS Code only supports bracket matching when the cursor is near the opening or closing bracket. Maybe an extension would help highlight the. Jan 27, 2017 - Matching brackets and very hard to see cursor #22973 @cesaraaron..
I think they handle it very well. Is there someplace in documentation that I can get a full list of the different styling properties available to Brackets Colorizer? I tried some of the subtle brackets ones you show above and they work! But I don't know how many other CSS properties work also. It's hard to tell because the JSON format for the CSS properties are done in a style that's different than the naming convention of CSS itself so I assume there's some additional level in JS that's translating it etc over to CSS styling for the plugin etc.