Change background of selected block

Question

When I place my cursor on the extremity of a block (represented by the white drawn cursor on the picture below) VSC highlight both the ending and the starting symbol of that block.

The red line on the picture represent the starting and the ending of that block. Where can I set the option for VSC to automatically use a background color to highlight the current selected block ? (I am really more of a visual guy and I like to feel where's my current locations when I am coding.)

Answer 1

You are going to need an extension to do that, it isn't built-in. Try:

Indented Block Highlighting

I am not sure it supports all languages but see if it works in your case.

Bracket-pair-colorizer does something similar but more subtle. See "bracket-pair-colorizer-2.showHorizontalScopeLine".

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And see How to change indent guide line color between brackets in VSCODE? - perhaps highlighting the active indent guide will be enough for you?

Using (in your settings.json):

"workbench.colorCustomizations": {

  "editorIndentGuide.background": "#bbb",
  "editorIndentGuide.activeBackground": "#f00e0e",\
}