Clash between selection background and matching parens highlight
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Needs Design
- Dominant language
- Vala
- Stars
- 521
- Forks
- 118
- Avg merge
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Description
I have selected only the function parameters, but it looks as if I had selected the parens as well:

This makes editing a bit confusing.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the reported selection of function parameters while matching-parenthesis highlighting is visible in the editor. Trace the editor's selection and matching-paren rendering paths, then verify that selected parameters and highlighted parentheses are visually distinguishable without changing either behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100