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johnslavik

opened on Jul 9, 2026

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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:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-153401: Highlight matching delimiters in the REPL #160038

Reacted by Eduardo Villalpando Mello

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1. johnslavik

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   type-featureA feature request or enhancementA feature request or enhancement

   stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directoryStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory

   topic-replRelated to the interactive shellRelated to the interactive shell

   on Jul 9, 2026
2. johnslavik

   self-assigned this

   on Jul 9, 2026
3. johnslavik

   changed the title [-]Add paren matching to the REPL[/-] [+]Add bracket & paren matching to the REPL[/+] on Jul 9, 2026
4. johnslavik

   changed the title [-]Add bracket & paren matching to the REPL[/-] [+]Add brace / bracket / paren matching to the REPL[/+] on Jul 9, 2026
5. edvilme commented on Jul 9, 2026

   

   edvilme

   on Jul 9, 2026

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   Hi, if you're not planning to already, I would love to work on this :)
6. johnslavik commented on Jul 9, 2026

   

   johnslavik

   on Jul 9, 2026

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   Thanks @edvilme, I'd like to make the PR this time. Feel invited to review it though.

   Reacted by Eduardo Villalpando Mello

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