Big change to rainbow-delimiters.nvim

No, not another rewrite. Much better than that: the long-standing ugliness of highlighting being limited to only one node at a time has been fixed. Previously only one opening node and one closing node could be highlighted. This was perfectly adequate for most languages where you have one opening parenthesis and one closing parenthesis. However, consider HTML: we want to highlight the opening and closing tag, but if we highlight the entire top-level node we also highlight the attributes of the tag, which looks too vibrant. The alternative was highlighting the tag name, but this left the angle brackets without highlighting, which looked jarring as well.

The above two screenshots show the highlighting before (top) and after (bottom). In the old screenshot the angle brackets are coloured differently than the tag names, which makes the text look much noisier. In the bottom screenshot the angle brackets match the tag names, which looks much more uniform, especially for short tag names like <p>. In both cases the tag attributes have their default highlighting.

This improvement is not exclusive to HTML. In Lua we often have three delimiters, for example loops have for, do and end. We can now define a query which will highlight all three delimiters instead of just the first two. It just happens that HTML is the worst offender.

The solution came from Daniel Kongsgaard via GitHub PR. He had the idea of using iter_captures instead of iter_matches to iterate over the matched nodes. There was quite a lot more to be done, but in the end we persevered. This does mean all the existing queries had to be rewritten. End users won't notice any difference, the new queries will just work. New queries need to be written for the new captures though.

I hope everyone else enjoys the new rainbow delimiters as well.