Jump between matching brackets with customized keybindings. Enhanced fork with modified shortcut configurations for efficient bracket navigation in code.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Jump between matching brackets with customized keybindings. This extension provides eight directional bracket navigation commands that let you move or select to the nearest bracket in any direction, including scope-aware "ascend" commands that find the enclosing bracket pair at the same or higher nesting level.
Features
Jump Left/Right: Move the cursor to the nearest bracket in either direction. Opening brackets land the cursor after the bracket; closing brackets land it before.
Select Left/Right: Extend the current selection to the nearest bracket in either direction, preserving the anchor position.
Ascend Left/Right: Jump to the nearest unmatched bracket at the same or higher scope, skipping over fully paired inner brackets.
Select Ascend Left/Right: Extend selection to the nearest unmatched bracket at the same or higher scope.
Uni-bracket Support: Handles quotes and backticks (", ', `) as context-sensitive brackets, using heuristics to determine whether they are opening or closing.
Configurable Bracket Sets: Customize which characters count as opening brackets, closing brackets, and uni-brackets via settings.
Escape-aware: Backslash-escaped brackets are correctly ignored during navigation.
Commands
Command
Description
Windows/Linux
Mac
bracket-jumper.jumpLeft
Jump to next-left bracket
Ctrl+Alt+Left
Ctrl+Left
bracket-jumper.jumpRight
Jump to next-right bracket
Ctrl+Alt+Right
Ctrl+Right
bracket-jumper.selectLeft
Select to next-left bracket
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left
Ctrl+Shift+Left
bracket-jumper.selectRight
Select to next-right bracket
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right
Ctrl+Shift+Right
bracket-jumper.ascendLeft
Ascend to nearest left bracket at same/higher scope
Ctrl+Alt+Up
Ctrl+Up
bracket-jumper.ascendRight
Ascend to nearest right bracket at same/higher scope
Ctrl+Alt+Down
Ctrl+Down
bracket-jumper.selectAscendLeft
Select to nearest left bracket at same/higher scope
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up
Ctrl+Shift+Up
bracket-jumper.selectAscendRight
Select to nearest right bracket at same/higher scope
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down
Ctrl+Shift+Down
Configuration
Setting
Default
Description
bracket-jumper.openingBrackets
["<", "{", "[", "("]
Characters recognized as opening brackets
bracket-jumper.closingBrackets
[">", "}", "]", ")"]
Characters recognized as closing brackets
bracket-jumper.uniBrackets
["`", "\"", "'"]
Characters that serve as both opening and closing brackets
Key Modifications from Original
Customized keybinding mappings for both Mac and Windows/Linux platforms
Added uni-bracket support for quotes and backticks with context-aware opening/closing heuristics
Enhanced ascend commands to properly handle uni-brackets with pair counting
Attribution
Based on Bracket Jumper by sashaweiss. The original extension has not been updated since 2017. This fork is independently modified and maintained.
