https://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks.git
git clone 'git://github.com/istib/rainbow-blocks.git'
Rainbow-blocks is an Emacs mode that highlights blocks made of parentheses, brackets, and braces according to their depth. Each successive level is highlighted in a different color. This makes it easy to orient yourself in the code, and tell which statements are at a given level.
It is a fork from the brilliant rainbow-delimiters.el package, and only applies minor patches.
It is inspired by Douglas Crockford's remark that highlighting scope rather that syntax is sometimes more useful. So far, however, it does not understand the actual scope constructs of the given language.
Install via melpa:
M-x package-install RET rainbow-blocks RET
Compile the file (necessary for speed):
M-x byte-compile-file [location of rainbow-blocks.el]
Add the following to your dot-emacs/init file:
(require 'rainbow-blocks)
Activate the mode in your init file (e.g. for clojure):
(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook 'rainbow-blocks-mode)
It is also often useful to temporarily enable the mode by just calling:
M-x rainbow-blocks-mode