🌈 nvim-ts-rainbow 🌈

Rainbow parentheses for neovim using tree-sitter. This is a module for nvim-treesitter, not a standalone plugin. It requires and is configured via nvim-treesitter

Should work with any language supported by nvim-treesitter. If any language is missing, please open an issue/PR.

Installation and setup

Install and set up nvim-treesitter according to their documentation. Install this plugin, then add a rainbow section in the call to require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup():

require("nvim-treesitter.configs").setup {
  highlight = {
      -- ...
  },
  -- ...
  rainbow = {
    enable = true,
    -- disable = { "jsx", "cpp" }, list of languages you want to disable the plugin for
    extended_mode = true, -- Also highlight non-bracket delimiters like html tags, boolean or table: lang -> boolean
    max_file_lines = nil, -- Do not enable for files with more than n lines, int
    -- colors = {}, -- table of hex strings
    -- termcolors = {} -- table of colour name strings
  }
}

If you want to enable it only for some filetypes and disable it for everything else, see p00f#30 (comment)

Colours

I've used the gruvbox palette because it is nice and subtle. I wanted to use VIBGYOR for an actual rainbow, but

indigo and blue look the same.
the colours were too bright and distracting.

To change the colours you can set them in the setup:

require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup{
  rainbow = {
    -- Setting colors
    colors = {
      -- Colors here
    },
    -- Term colors
    termcolors = {
      -- Term colors here
    }
  },
}

If you want to override some colours (you can only change colours 1 through 7 this way), you can do it in your init.vim: (thanks @delphinus !). You can also use this while writing a colorscheme