Minecraft Colorer mc-color is a VSCode extension that formats Minecraft color escape characters (§) in the editor.

Beta v3

The current beta experiments with custom language tokenization for improved editor support. Supported languages are listed in /src/grammars.ts. Contributions for additional languages or enhanced grammar support are welcome! >:3

Configuration

interface Config {
  "mc-color.enable": boolean;
  "mc-color.prefixes": Array<string>;
  "mc-color.version": "bedrock" | "bedrock-pre-1.21.50" | "bedrock-pre-1.19.70" | "java";
  "mc-color.marker": "foreground" | "background" | "outline" | "underline";
  "mc-color.fallback": boolean;
  "mc-color.fallbackRegex": Array<string>;
}

Default Configuration

{
  "mc-color.enable": true;
  "mc-color.prefixes": ["&", "§"];
  "mc-color.version": "bedrock";
  "mc-color.marker": "foreground";
  // Fallback is for unrecognized languages.
  "mc-color.fallback": true;
  "mc-color.fallbackRegex": [
    "(?<!\\\\)\"", // Unescaped double quotes
    "(?<!\\\\)'",  // Unescaped single quotes
    "(?<!\\\\)`",  // Unescaped backticks
    "\\r?\\n"      // Newline (Unix or Windows style)
  ];
}

You can configure these settings at the workspace level by adding a .vscode/settings.json file, or adjust them globally by searching for mc-color in the VSCode settings.