Better Brackets Support

[the3emran (Emran Ramezan)]

Hi,

Nova is lagging some essential feature regarding handling/parsing weird bracket situations required by some frameworks/templates.

Here are the issues:

1. Support for Multiple Characters

• There is no way for us to define multiple bracket characters. Nova is somehow is restricted to one.
• bracket and surrounding
• One example is from this post on the forum
• Multiple Characters Bracket
• This is very common across alot of frameworks and templating engines, I am working on Blade myself currently that uses {{ x }} or {!! x !!}
• If I do the following, the syntax is not picked up by Nova (prior to Nova 11 it used to give messed up colouring but now it is not even recognised as a bracket)

    <brackets>
            <pair open="{{" close="}}" />
    </brackets>
    <surrounding-pairs>
            <pair open="{{" close="}}" />
     </surrounding-pairs>

2. Support for Autoclose

• Once the brackets are defined in the Syntaxes/lang.xml, they do not autoclose, I think Nova should support this first party without us having to use hacks like tree-sitter autoclose.
• Not Autoclosing

3. Highlight.scm and Rainbow Bracket Conflict

• I was trying to do some workarounds that I come across the fact that if I have the “rainbow bracket” on, the highlight.scm won’t work. I think Nova should give priority to the highlight.scm instead of the “rainbow bracket” so that we can override if needed
• Here is an example photo

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Thanks
Emran

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Since this is a duplicate of the bug report mentioned itself, I am closing this topic in favor of it.