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✨ Tree Sitter for Bracket Highlight

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the current bracket-highlighting implementation and the existing Tree-sitter integration in CodeEditSourceEditor. Compare the desired behavior with Helix issue 3584, then define completion as faster, syntax-aware bracket highlighting that skips brackets inside comments for supported languages.

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Description

enhancement
Description

Tree sitter can give us faster, more accurate bracket highlight info. By finding the beginning or end of a syntax node, we can jump to a spot we can reasonably assume is near a bracket and search from there. This will also skip brackets that are in comments in supported languages.

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Additional Context

Helix has similar support: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/3584

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