Division involving a complex number

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Given this

$\dfrac{x+1}{x-i}$

What can I do with that?

If i do polynomial division as below, I get:

$$x-i)\overline{x+1} = 1 + \frac{1+i}{x-1}$$

however, I'm not even sure if this is legal maths. The other thing I think I could to is remove the complex demoninator with the complex conjugate to get:

$$\dfrac{x^2-x(i-1)-i}{x^2+1}$$

but I do not know what to do with this from this point on. I tried polynomial division to get:

$$1- \frac{-x(i-1)-1}{x^2+1}$$

Once again, i'm not sure if this is the correct path. Some help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Polynomial division (quotient and remainder) in ${\Bbb C}[x]$ gives $$x+1 = 1\cdot (x-i) + (1+i).$$