Why does the FrontEnd lose matching of parentheses when we insert quotations?

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Bug introduced in V10.0 and resolved in V11.3

(These are guesses. It is likely to have been resolved in an earlier version V11.X, but V11.3 is what I have access to.)

I am running Mathematica 10.0.1 on a four-year old iMac running OS 10.6.8. The following irritating behavior occurs regularly: I have a list with parentheses, and later on I need to add something to an earlier part of the list that involves quotation marks. As soon as I include the quotation marks, the matching between the parentheses gets lost, and I need to go in by hand to fix the parentheses matching. See the gif below for an example.

This also happens in version 10.0.2.0 on a 2014 MacBook Air running OS 10.10.4. I have verified that this does not happen in Mathematica 8 on the four-year old iMac.

Is this problem reproducible in general? How do we fix it? Is it already fixed in a later version? If so, is there a work-around without upgrading? Should this be reported as a bug to WRI?

Yes, I see the same behavior in 10.2 on Win7-64. Interestingly, the behavior seems triggered by two-dimensional formatting of the power on my system: if I write (a+1)^2 instead of using the superscript form, the parenthesis matching seems unaffected by quotes. Is that true on on your system as well? — MarcoB, Jul 31 '15 at 21:30
@MarcoB. Yes, that's true on mine. I've also run into situations where the matching between a Slot and the corresponding & will get lost, but I wasn't able to reproduce that; I can't quite remember when that happens. — march, Jul 31 '15 at 21:41
I remember another question about a similar problem, but not well enough to find it. Can anyone else do better? — Mr.Wizard, Jul 31 '15 at 23:42
@Mr.Wizard. This one, I think. It's essentially the same problem. Mark as duplicate? That one is still unanswered. — march, Aug 01 '15 at 04:20
@march Yes! Thank you. Also somewhat related: (35202), (76410) — Mr.Wizard, Aug 01 '15 at 04:21
I have this same problem on OSX 10.10.5, with Mathematica 10.0.1.0. — Jess Riedel, Oct 13 '15 at 19:19
What is the status of this bug on OS X in Mathematica 10.3.1? — QuantumDot, Dec 27 '15 at 11:50
@mikado. It's possible that it was never a problem on Linux machines (I don't think I've seen any comments about that). Can you verify that it was? — march, Aug 23 '16 at 21:35
@march This bug seems to be resolved in v11. Can you confirm? — QuantumDot, Aug 24 '16 at 02:44
@QuantumDot. Unfortunately, I do not have access to v11. I'm still stuck at V10.0.1. — march, Aug 24 '16 at 17:07
@QuantumDot. In my (new) copy of V11.3, this seems to be resolved. — march, Apr 09 '19 at 17:36

Why does the FrontEnd lose matching of parentheses when we insert quotations?

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