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The ^[ command to find a matching brace or paren is nice, but it could be nicer. Currently, the cursor must be just past the opening or closing brace or paren. Especially for closing braces that appear on a line by themselves, or on a line with nothing else besides comments, ^[ should be smart enough to work if placed anywhere on that line, and most especially if placed in the white space before the brace. The same goes for whitespace or comments after an opening brace. For example, in <code> try { // some | comment // code here } catch (...) </code> If the cursor is in the location marked by "|" above, then ^[ should jump to the closing brace. Basically, anytime that the opening and closing braces are unambiguous, make ^ [ do the right thing. Obviously if code is formatted like this <code> if (...) { // explain the if clause ... } else { // explain the else clause ... } // final comment </code> then a cursor in the middle of the word "else" is ambiguous. But if it is anywhere before the opening brace of that line, it's obvious what ^[ should do. Same if the cursor is anywhere after the opening brace of the else or anywhere after the closing brace, within the final comment.
Issue #95126 covers all of this. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 95126 ***