How to disable highlighting matched parens in VS Code?

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I find this distracting:

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I found the "editor.guides.highlightActiveBracketPair" setting and disabled it the settings (Ctrl+,), but nothing changed. I restarted the editor, but nothing changed. I checked ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json, and saw that it was there:

    "editor.guides.highlightActiveBracketPair": false,

But still no change. I even added it again in a Python-specific block, because I learned how to do that when I went on a similar journey trying to change default indent for YAML files:

    "[python]": {
        "editor.guides.highlightActiveBracketPair": false 
    }

But still no change.

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1 Answers

The answer is:

    "editor.matchBrackets": "never",

The setting is listed in the reference:

  // Highlight matching brackets.
  "editor.matchBrackets": "always",

However, the reference doesn't list the possible options. I correctly guessed "never", but afterwards, I searched for "brackets" in the app settings (Ctrl+,) and found the setting with a drop-down box with all three possible values:

  • always
  • near
  • never
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