Highlighting preferences page

In this page you can set the preferences of: brackets highlighting colors, which cursor surrounding brackets are shown and whether to show the matching bracket on hover.

Notice that the configurations are per editor type (Java, C/C++, etc...) according to the tab selected.

Brackets surrounding the cursor screen shot:

Missing brackets screen shot:

Brackets highlighting

In this section you can choose the foreground and background colors for matching brackets and for brackets without a match.

Select on of the "highlighting types", on the left, and then the colors, on the right.

"- Default -" - This would be the configuration used if the "Use default" checkbox is checked in one of the other "highlighting types".
"Pair 1 (closest)", "Pair 2", "Pair 3", "Pair 4 (farest)" - The colors of the 4 closest bracket pairs surrounding the cursor (or hovered with the mouse). "Pair 1" is the 1st pair surrounding the cursor and "Pair 4" is the 4th pair.
"Missing pair" - This is the color of brackets which have no pair. All such brackets in the document would be highlighted.

Background color styles
"None" - Draw transparent background (in other words, ignore the background color selected, and don't draw a background)
"Solid" - Draw a rectangle around the character and fill it with the background color (A, solid, black background looks like this: solid style example

).
"Outline" - Draw a rectangle around the character, color its outline is the background color. Only the outline is drawn, the inside of the rectangle is transparent (An, outlined, black background looks like this: Outline style example

).

Annotation
"Enable annotation" - This option is applicable only for "Missing pair", if enabled, in addition to highlighting of the bracket whose missing a pair, an annotation would appear in the "overview ruler" and "vertical ruler". The annotation preferences (such as color, etc..) is configured in the "Annotations preferences page" (Preferences: General->Editors->Text Editors->Annotations) under the "Bracket missing pair" annotation type.

Surrounding brackets

This section is dedicated for bracket pairs surrounding the cursor.

The "Enable" checkbox can be used to enable/disable highlighting of surrounding brackets. You can do this also using the toolbar button

or by pressing Ctrl+[, Ctrl+S (the "Enable surrounding brackets" command).

You can choose which bracket pairs would highlighted ("{" , "[", etc..) and how many.
You can also ignore pairs whose brackets are close to each other.

Mouse hover

"Show matching pairs of the brackets near the hover point" - If enabled, when you hover near a bracket, the bracket pair will be highlighted automatically (up to 4 pairs can be highlighted at once). You can also enable/disable this option using the toolbar button

or by using a key binding you define for the "Enable hovered brackets" command.

"Show popup with the pair of the hovered bracket (if not visible)" - If enabled, when hovering over a "}" (a closing curly bracket) whose matching opening bracket (i.e. "{") is outside the visible screen boundaries, a popup window will appear, above the editor, with 3 lines surrounding the opening bracket (one line before and one line after).

"Unless there is a hint on the closing bracket" - If enabled, a popup, as described in the paragraph above, will not appear if the closing bracket has a "hint". This option is applicable only if "Show popup with the pair of the hovered bracket (if not visible)" is enabled.

This is how the preferences page looks like:

This is how the preferences page looks like