Add brace / bracket / paren matching to the REPL
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@johnslavik is already working on this.
Since Jul 9, 2026.
stdlib
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
If I touch a paren or a brace or a bracket with the cursor, highlight the other matching paren / brace / bracket.
We can also consider coloring them differently, but lazily highlighting matching parens would probably be much more useful and less tiring for the eyes.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
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