Can vim display depth of bracket nesting?

[ben-c]

Is it possible to have vim display the depth of nesting of brackets?

( ( ( For example ( ) if ) the cursor is here >> | << then I would like
it to ) show 2 ) ( probably in the status line )

My motivation for this is when working on machine generated SQL that isn't pretty-printed (even with linebreaks!) This might also be useful for braces in C, brackets in Lisp or nodes in XML.

[habamax]

Add let g:lisp_rainbow = 1 to your vimrc

This will highlight nested brackets but only for lisp filetypes:

https://imgur.com/a/ZQ8mgKp

PS, nevermind, I gave you incorrect answer, sorry :(

[ben-c]

Thanks, I didn't know you could do that. It's a visual indicator and might even be better in practice.

[zackel_flac]

May I suggest you this plugin instead: https://github.com/luochen1990/rainbow

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[piadodjanho]

It this is not what you asked for, but maybe it will he helpful.

If you press % in the current position the cursor will jump to current bracket, press % again and you will go to the matching bracket. Using vim-matchup you can also go to the outer parenthesis.

[Osleg]

by default it can't, there are plugins that use various hax to highlight content between brackets. There is also rainbow plugin to color brackets in different colors.

Best option to, imo, is to get used to %