Enable for other file extensions (erb) about vscode-highlight-matching-tag

[KamasamaK]

There are no settings for including or excluding particular languages or file extensions. It just tries to work for every file.

[crispincornett]

I guess it does look like its trying to work.

Here's how it looks on a html snippet with the syntax set to "HTML":

And then here's how it behaves with the same html snippet, but with the syntax set to "html.erb" :

As you can see it highlights all same tags (in this instance all div), not just the matching ones.

[vincaslt]

The extension works for every syntax, even plain text. In this case it is working fine, but either the default vscode selection highlight is interfering and masking the highlight, or some other extension is. Unfortunately, I was not yet able to disable interfering decorations from other extensions, and in fact I'm starting to thing that's not even supposed to be allowed anyway.

You could try to set:
"editor.occurrencesHighlight": false
and see if it's satisfactory for you (you could find how to target specific extensions, say .erb with this setting). The downside is that you won't get this occurencesHighlighting in other code too.

You could also try to use some custom styling, instead of underline, for example background highlighting (see here).

Since there is no immediate issue with the extension and the quirk you're seeing is caused by some external extension or vscode itself, I will close the issue if there are no further comments.

[crispincornett]

Yeah, that makes sense. Seems like it is an API maybe VSCode is missing?

I took your advice and customized the styles and then disabled the "editor.occurrencesHighlight" for html.erb.

"[html.erb]": { "editor.occurrencesHighlight": false }

That seems to work just fine as far as I can tell.

Thanks for the help!