Language Additions

Enhance your code’s clarity with granular syntax highlighting.

This is a premium feature. You can unlock it by purchasing a full plugin license or a standalone Material Theme Language Additions license.

Overview

Language Additions significantly improves the IDE’s syntax highlighting by allowing you to individually colorize keywords, functions, and primitives. This creates a more readable and vibrant coding environment, helping you instantly distinguish between different code elements.

These additions are integrated directly into the Color Scheme settings pages for each supported language, titled <Language> Additions.

Supported Languages

Language Additions are currently available for several popular languages:

• Java
• Kotlin
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Go
• Rust

Note: We plan to allow other plugin authors to contribute their own language additions in the future.

JavaScript / TypeScript

The following elements can be customized:

• this, super
• if, else, for, while, do
• constructor
• return, yield
• new, throw
• async, await
• try, catch, finally
• export, import, require, from, default, module
• debugger
• prototype
• null, undefined, NaN
• true, false
• var, let, const
• function, static
• get, set
• abstract, class, extends, implements
• console, window, document, global
• in, of, instanceof, typeof, as
• public, private, protected, readonly
• declare, namespace
• type, interface, alias
• any, unknown, never
• keyof
• enum
• number, string, boolean, object, symbol, bigint, void
• satisfies, using

Java

The following elements can be customized:

• abstract, extends, implements, native
• assert
• byte, short, int, long, float, double, char, boolean, void
• class, interface
• enum
• for, while, do
• if, else
• package, import
• instanceof
• module, exports, requires, opens, provides, uses, with, transitive
• new
• true, false
• null
• private, protected, public
• return
• static
• final
• switch, case, default
• synchronized, volatile, transient
• this, super
• throw, throws
• try, catch, finally
• var

PHP

The following elements can be customized:

• echo
• exit, die
• function
• null
• private, public, protected
• self
• static, final
• true, false
• use, namespace

Kotlin

The following keywords can be customized:

• private, public, protected, internal
• sealed, override, open
• object, companion
• data
• operator, infix
• this, super
• null, Unit
• import, package
• true, false

Python

The following elements can be customized:

• True, False, None
• as
• async, await
• class
• def
• if, elif, else, while, for, do
• import, from
• print
• raise
• return, yield
• try, except, finally
• with

Ruby

Keywords:

• require, require_self, require_relative
• def
• class
• module, namespace
• if, elsif, else, unless
• private, protected, public
• return, yield
• raise
• case
• when
• while, until, loop
• begin, rescue, finally
• self
• not, and, or
• do

Primitives:

• nil
• true, false

Methods:

• attr_reader, attr_writer, attr_accessor, attr_accessible
• initialize
• new
• puts

Go

Functions:

• main
• make
• len, cap
• Print, Println, Printf

Keywords:

• import, package
• func
• if, else
• switch, case, default, fallthrough
• for, range, map
• return
• var, const
• type
• defer
• struct
• interface
• go, select
• chan

Primitives:

• nil
• true, false

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Rust

The following keywords and elements are customizable:

• as
• async, await
• crate
• dyn
• enum
• extern
• fn
• if, else
• impl
• let, const
• loop, while, for, break, continue
• match
• mod
• move
• mut, ref
• pub
• self, Self
• static
• struct
• return, yield
• trait
• true, false
• type
• unsafe
• union
• use
• where
• _

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Advanced Toggles

Individual Language Additions can be enabled or disabled globally through the Advanced Settings page.

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FAQ

Q: The feature doesn’t seem to be working. My keywords like var or this are the same color as the default keyword color, even though I’m using a different color scheme.

A: Since these are Additions, most color schemes are not natively aware of these specific entries and will fall back to the default keyword color defined by that scheme.

To fix this, you can manually customize the colors in the Language Additions settings page. If you’re a theme designer, you can include these color definitions in your exported schemes so that users who have the plugin installed can see your custom highlighting.

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