Fixes #16424 - Added option to toggle matching brackets highlighter

src/vs/editor/common/config/commonEditorConfig.ts

@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ class InternalEditorOptionsHelper {
 			selectionHighlight: toBoolean(opts.selectionHighlight),
 			codeLens: opts.referenceInfos && opts.codeLens,
 			folding: toBoolean(opts.folding),
+			highlightMatchingBrackets: toBoolean(opts.highlightMatchingBrackets),
 		});
 
 		return new editorCommon.InternalEditorOptions({
@@ -792,6 +793,11 @@ const editorConfiguration: IConfigurationNode = {
 			'default': DefaultConfig.editor.folding,
 			'description': nls.localize('folding', "Controls whether the editor has code folding enabled")
 		},
+		'editor.highlightMatchingBrackets': {
+			'type': 'boolean',
+			'default': true,
+			'description': nls.localize('highlightMatchingBrackets', "Highlight matching brackets when one of them is selected.")
+		},
 		'editor.glyphMargin': {
 			'type': 'boolean',
 			'default': DefaultConfig.editor.glyphMargin,

src/vs/editor/common/config/defaultConfig.ts

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ class ConfigClass implements IConfiguration {
 			renderIndentGuides: false,
 			renderLineHighlight: 'line',
 			useTabStops: true,
+			highlightMatchingBrackets: true,
 
 			fontFamily: (
 				platform.isMacintosh ? DEFAULT_MAC_FONT_FAMILY : (platform.isLinux ? DEFAULT_LINUX_FONT_FAMILY : DEFAULT_WINDOWS_FONT_FAMILY)

src/vs/editor/common/editorCommon.ts

@@ -464,6 +464,11 @@ export interface IEditorOptions {
 	 * Defaults to true in vscode and to false in monaco-editor.
 	 */
 	folding?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Enable to highlight matching brackets.
+	 * Defaults to true.
+	 */
+	highlightMatchingBrackets?: boolean;
 	/**
 	 * Enable rendering of whitespace.
 	 * Defaults to none.
@@ -913,6 +918,7 @@ export class EditorContribOptions {
 	readonly selectionHighlight: boolean;
 	readonly codeLens: boolean;
 	readonly folding: boolean;
+	readonly highlightMatchingBrackets: boolean;
 
 	/**
 	 * @internal
@@ -939,6 +945,7 @@ export class EditorContribOptions {
 		selectionHighlight: boolean;
 		codeLens: boolean;
 		folding: boolean;
+		highlightMatchingBrackets: boolean;
 	}) {
 		this.selectionClipboard = Boolean(source.selectionClipboard);
 		this.hover = Boolean(source.hover);
@@ -961,6 +968,7 @@ export class EditorContribOptions {
 		this.selectionHighlight = Boolean(source.selectionHighlight);
 		this.codeLens = Boolean(source.codeLens);
 		this.folding = Boolean(source.folding);
+		this.highlightMatchingBrackets = Boolean(source.highlightMatchingBrackets);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -989,6 +997,7 @@ export class EditorContribOptions {
 			&& this.selectionHighlight === other.selectionHighlight
 			&& this.codeLens === other.codeLens
 			&& this.folding === other.folding
+			&& this.highlightMatchingBrackets === other.highlightMatchingBrackets
 		);
 	}
 

src/vs/editor/contrib/bracketMatching/common/bracketMatching.ts

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { Position } from 'vs/editor/common/core/position';
 import { RunOnceScheduler } from 'vs/base/common/async';
 import * as editorCommon from 'vs/editor/common/editorCommon';
 import { editorAction, commonEditorContribution, ServicesAccessor, EditorAction } from 'vs/editor/common/editorCommonExtensions';
+import { IConfigurationService } from 'vs/platform/configuration/common/configuration';
 
 import EditorContextKeys = editorCommon.EditorContextKeys;
 
@@ -67,7 +68,10 @@ export class BracketMatchingController extends Disposable implements editorCommo
 	private _decorations: string[];
 	private _updateBracketsSoon: RunOnceScheduler;
 
-	constructor(editor: editorCommon.ICommonCodeEditor) {
+	constructor(
+		editor: editorCommon.ICommonCodeEditor,
+		@IConfigurationService private configurationService: IConfigurationService
+	) {
 		super();
 		this._editor = editor;
 		this._lastBracketsData = [];
@@ -125,7 +129,7 @@ export class BracketMatchingController extends Disposable implements editorCommo
 		let newDecorations: editorCommon.IModelDeltaDecoration[] = [], newDecorationsLen = 0;
 		for (let i = 0, len = this._lastBracketsData.length; i < len; i++) {
 			let brackets = this._lastBracketsData[i].brackets;
-			if (brackets) {
+			if (this.configurationService.lookup<boolean>('editor.highlightMatchingBrackets').value && brackets) {
 				newDecorations[newDecorationsLen++] = { range: brackets[0], options: BracketMatchingController._DECORATION_OPTIONS };
 				newDecorations[newDecorationsLen++] = { range: brackets[1], options: BracketMatchingController._DECORATION_OPTIONS };
 			}

src/vs/monaco.d.ts

@@ -1381,6 +1381,11 @@ declare module monaco.editor {
          * Defaults to true in vscode and to false in monaco-editor.
          */
         folding?: boolean;
+        /**
+         * Enable to highlight matching brackets
+         * Defaults to true
+         */
+        highlightMatchingBrackets?: boolean;
         /**
          * Enable rendering of whitespace.
          * Defaults to none.
@@ -1563,6 +1568,7 @@ declare module monaco.editor {
         readonly selectionHighlight: boolean;
         readonly codeLens: boolean;
         readonly folding: boolean;
+        readonly highlightMatchingBrackets: boolean;
     }
 
     /**

src/vs/platform/telemetry/common/telemetryUtils.ts

@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ const configurationValueWhitelist = [
 	'editor.hideCursorInOverviewRuler',
 	'editor.trimAutoWhitespace',
 	'editor.folding',
+	'editor.highlightMatchingBrackets',
 	'workbench.editor.enablePreviewFromQuickOpen',
 	'php.builtInCompletions.enable',
 	'php.validate.enable',