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🐞 Bracket Pair Highlight: Flash — wrong text aligning

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop-dev

Research direction

Reproduce the bracket flashing behavior in the editor using FiraCode or another ligature-enabled font, as described in the issue. Trace the editor's bracket-highlight or flashing behavior from there; done means the flashing bracket remains perfectly aligned with the original symbol.

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Description

bug
Description

Flashing symbol are misaligned. See screenshots.

To Reproduce
  1. Settings/Text Editing: set font: FiraCode or any other neat font with ligatures and features like calt;
  2. Play with matching flashing brackets in the editor.
Expected Behavior

Flashing bracket-symbol is perfectly aligned, did not moved relative to original symbol that was before flash.

Version Information

CodeEdit: 0.3.6 (47)
macOS: 15.7.2

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Dominant language
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