Jumping to matching brace not as expected

[Giessen]

Description of the problem

I bind C-] to JumpToMatchingBrace. Press C-] on one of paired braces, cursor go to after the paired brace instead of its accurate position.

Steps to reproduce

1. In ~/.config/micro/bindings.json:
   "CtrlRightSq": "JumpToMatchingBrace",
2. Open any txt file, type: {balabala}
3. Move to the left {, press C-]
   Expected: watch the cursor move TO } (cursor block covering }). ( for cursor style being '|', actually before } )
   Actual: the cursor move after }

NOTE: same problem to jump from } to {.

Specifications

Version: 2.0.14-dev.245
Commit hash: 2259fd1
OS: WSL2
Terminal: Zsh

Related issue:

#3308

[Andriamanitra]

It works as expected: If you start from outside the brackets it jumps outside the corresponding bracket, and if you start from inside it jumps inside the corresponding bracket.

       outside to outside
     ┌───────────────────┐ 
. . . { b a l a b a l a } . . .
       └───────────────┘
        inside to inside

[Giessen]

Thanks for the great explaination. Now I see the logic which is designed on purpose. Is there any special consideration for this design? Personally I find this way is more intuitive:


😄

[dmaluka]

Please see #2876 (comment).

TL;DR this behavior was originally introduced in #1054 as a separate option (disabled by default) and later was "merged" into the default behavior.

[Giessen]

Thank you very much for the info. Is there an easy fix or settings so I can disable the "closing brace to left/right of cursor"? IMHO, this causes more mental burden than otherwise and leads to hard to follow/predict results. One e.g. stated in #2876: (xyz)(xyz)

I do a test as following:

1. initial cusror position
   
2. pressing key (C-]) to execute JumpToMatchingBrace
   
3. pressing key (C-]) again
   
   We can see in step3, the cursor moves to next closing brace, rather than return back to original '(' as intuitively expected.
   Maybe this behaviour is useful in some situations which I have never encountered with :). But It seems to be better to have an option to toggle on/off.

[dmaluka]

Is there an easy fix or settings so I can disable the "closing brace to left/right of cursor"?

There is none, but we can probably implement it.

[dmaluka]

You can try with PR #3432 (with matchbraceleft option disabled).

[JoeKar]

Setting matchbraceleft to false should do the trick now for the expected behavior of this issue.

[Giessen]

I can confirm it works great. Thanks for the contribution.