Selected text is not wrapped in brackets/parenthensis/braces
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Description
When pressing any of the open variants of brackets/parenthensis/braces while a text block is selected, I expect this to "wrap" the text in the selected brackets/parenthensis/braces.
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Research direction
Start by searching the Rust codebase for keyboard handling of opening brackets, parentheses, and braces. Confirm the behavior with selected text, then add coverage for wrapping each bracket variant and verify that the selected text remains inside the inserted pair.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100