Colored Background

Colors the background of the code editor according to rules.

Features

• Define rules to color background blocks based on start and end regex.
• Support for backreferences in end regex (e.g. end \1).
• Cycle through a pool of colors for consecutive blocks.
• Support for theme colors and custom colors.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• coloredBackground.rules: Array of rules.

• path: Regex for file path.

• startLine: Regex for start line.

• endLine: Regex for end line.

• color: Background color (hex, rgb, or theme color ID).

• poolId: ID of the color pool to use.
• coloredBackground.pools: Object defining color pools.

Example Configuration

"coloredBackground.pools": {
    "myPool": ["rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.1)", "rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.1)"]
},
"coloredBackground.rules": [
    {
        "path": ".*\\.ts",
        "startLine": "describe\\(.*",
        "endLine": "\\}\\);",
        "poolId": "myPool"
    },
    {
        "path": ".*\\.lean",
        "startLine": "namespace (.*)",
        "endLine": "end \\1",
        "color": "editor.selectionBackground"
    }
]

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release.