Eclipse: Use background color instead of outline for matching bracket

Question

Does anybody know how to set the background color of matching brackets to yellow instead of using a grey outline? I want to do this to be consistent with NetBeans IDE and EditPad Pro.

Answer 1

Go to the Window menu, Preferences option, the select the language you want to change it for in the left column (e.g. C/C++, Java, etc), then choose Editor, and select the top option of the middle frame, change to whatever color you want.

Answer 2

The answers listed ( Window > Preferences > Java > Editor ) are accurate for the question. But if your goal is to find ways to visually see everything inside of braces, here are a couple of more ways you can do this:

Move cursor to the opposite brace: Ctrl-Shift-P moves the cursor to the opposite brace If you start somewhere in the middle of a section, this will toggle among three points, the beginning brace and the ending brace and where the cursor started. This works for parentheses also.

Highlight the contents of the braces: double click just to the right of the open, or left of the closing brace. The area is highlighted. At this point you can also copy to the clipboard.