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Matching brace only highlights when selecting before the opening brace
Rodrigo Salazar
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Using Visual studio enterprise 2022 preview. Editing C# files.
Where is the setting which controls whether cursor after an opening brace should be highlighting the closing brace?
In my visual studio editor brace highlighting only works when having the cursor before the opening brace.
Attached image: when having the cursor after an open brace
Brace highlighting works when selecting before the opening brace.
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David Lowndes 4,541 Reputation points MVP
2022-08-21T09:23:04.88+00:00 I'm not aware there is any such option. What makes you think there is?
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The reason why is because it works this way in other popular editors, like Jetbrains IDEs.
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