(Option to) delete highlighted brackets rather than "closest"

[leoauri]

Hi there, thanks for this extension! I would find it convenient if the shortcut deleted highlighted brackets rather than directly enclosing, so that I have direct visual feedback about what is to be removed with the next keystroke

[Pustelto]

Hi, what do you mean exactly by highlighted brackets? You mean brackets in selection?

[leoauri]

Hi @Pustelto, sorry, I assumed this is the default behaviour.
When my cursor is sitting in front of a bracket, both this and the matching closing bracket are surrounded with a box, this is what I mean by highlighted. My suggestion is to make it possible to remove these visually highlighted brackets as default.

In my setup vscode "highlights" the bracket directly after the cursor position (+ matching) if there is one, otherwise the next set of surrounding brackets. For me it would be useful to have this visual feedback correspond to the brackets to be removed by Bracketeer

[Pustelto]

I see, honestly I prefer to know that closest brackets will be modified, seems more predictive and logical to me. But that may be only my personal opinion. As for the request itself - if I would implement this it would be an optional settings (current mode and your suggestion) to avoid changing this for everyone. Second I need to check if I can get the position of the highlighted brackets (not sure if this is native VS Code or some extension) to get some idea how to tackle this.

Unfortunately I'm afraid I won't be able to do this very soon. I have very small amount of free time at the moment for personal projects and my current focus is elsewhere at the moment. Of course, if you would like to have a look feel free. but be warned I have put bracketeer together in a short time and it's not contributor friendly (something I would like to fix in the future as well).

[goi42]

I would consider this a bug, even if it's not one technically. In the editor, I see one set of brackets highlighted, but that's not the set Bracketeer modifies. This routinely causes me to do a double-take while coding.