How do I get Vim to highlight matching parenthesis?

Question

When I browse code in Vim, I need to see opening and closing parenthesis/ brackets, and pressing % seems unproductive.

I tried :set showmatch, bu

Answer 1

DoMatchParen

in your .vimrc file

or

:DoMatchParen

within vim itself.

Edit: This comes from the pi_paren plugin (which is a standard plugin).