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🐞 Bracket pair highlight breaks editor while working on Javascript

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Assessment

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

Research direction

Reproduce the issue in CodeEditSourceEditor 0.3.4-alpha with Bracket Pair Highlight enabled for all three styles, first in a .js file and then inside an HTML <script> section. Inspect the Swift syntax-highlighting and tree-sitter integration involved in bracket highlighting, and compare behavior outside the script section. Done means typing remains responsive after entering an opening bracket in JavaScript.

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Description

bug
Description

The "Bracket Pair Highlight" feature breaks the editor when working on Javascript code.

All options (Bordered, Flash, Underline) result in the same issue.

Tested both within a .js file and within a <script> tag in an .html file. The behaviour didn't happen outside of the <script> tags within the HTML file as I suspect it's a bug in the syntax highlighting code.

To Reproduce
  1. Go to CodeEdit menu > Settings > Text Editing
  2. Enable "Bracket Pair Highlight" (Same behaviour across all options)
  3. Create a new javascript (.js) file - OR - an HTML file (.html) with a <script> section.
  4. Go back to the editor and try typing in a function call e.g.: function('')
  5. After typing the opening bracket, keyboard input will stop responding in the editor.
Expected Behavior

For the editor to continue working.

Version Information

CodeEdit: 0.3.4-alpha (45)
macOS: Sequoia 15.5 (24F74)
Xcode: 16.3.0.0.1.1742442376

Additional Context

Tested both with a .js file and within a <script> tag in an .html file.

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