A highly customizable bracket and tag highlighter plugin for Sublime Text with advanced editing features.
BracketHighlighter is a Sublime Text plugin that visually highlights matching brackets, quotes, and HTML/XML tags in code. It solves the problem of tracking nested structures in complex files by providing clear visual cues and advanced editing tools for bracket manipulation.
Sublime Text users who work with code containing nested brackets, tags, or quotes—particularly web developers, programmers, and anyone editing structured text files.
Developers choose BracketHighlighter for its high customizability, performance-optimized matching, and rich feature set including bracket editing plugins, language-specific configurations, and multi-select compatibility.
Bracket and tag highlighter for Sublime Text
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Supports configurable styles for brackets, quotes, and tags, with language-specific allowlists or blocklists, enabling tailored highlighting per project needs as documented.
Includes powerful tools like jumping between brackets, selecting content, swapping quotes with escape handling, and synchronized tag editing, directly enhancing coding efficiency.
Works seamlessly with Sublime Text's multi-cursor functionality, allowing bracket operations across multiple selections for batch edits.
Offers an optional enhanced highlight style for better visibility in deeply nested or complex code, as shown in the screenshot examples.
Only available for Sublime Text, limiting its use for developers on other editors and creating vendor lock-in within the Sublime ecosystem.
With numerous settings for styles, languages, and plugins, initial setup and fine-tuning can be daunting and time-consuming for users without experience in Sublime Text plugins.
Despite being rewritten for speed, real-time bracket matching in large files or with extensive custom rules can introduce latency, especially when combined with other plugins.