Is it possible to have different color and font settings for comments when they start with # or ## in VS Code?

Question

I want to structure my code better with comments but I want to have different categories for comments, ones that describe the code below and ones that are more personalized for me and include what I want to think of later on, etc..

Is it possible to have different color and font settings for comments that start with # others that start with ## for instance?

Answer 1

Using the Highlight extension, put this into your settings.json:

  "highlight.regexes": {

    "(##\\s*)(.*)|(#\\s*)(.*)": {
      "filterLanguageRegex": "python",
      "regexFlags": "gm",
      "decorations": [
        {"color": "yellow"},
        {
          "color": "yellow",
          "backgroundColor": "#f005",
          "fontWeight": "bold",
          "fontStyle": "italic"
        },
        {"color": "orange"},
        {
          "color": "orange"
        }
      ]
    }
  }

There is a lot of styling you can do with this extension, see https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api#DecorationRenderOptions