Usually, when typing [ a closing bracket is added automatically resulting in [] immediately. But when typing ^[ for example to add a footnote, no closing bracket is added automatically.
Type ^[
Getting an auto paired ] afterwards, resulting in ^[] immediately.
^[
I can’t reproduce. Post a ascreen recording of this happening in the help vaut.
Ah, found the error. It seems to be a macOS issue. When typing ^, it gets underlined signaling that typing a vocal next, results e.g. in â. You can escape this mechanism by hitting escape. If you do this, then the bug doesn’t occur. Nevertheless, I would regard this as a bug.
Here you can see how escaping leads to the expected behavior:
It’s the same
Search/post a bug report to codemirror.
