When I browse code in Vim, I need to see opening and closing parenthesis/ brackets, and pressing % seems unproductive.
I tried :set showmatch
, bu
An upgrade of vim from version 6.3 to 8.0 might swap/upgrade the code file that manages this MatchParen functionality under /usr/share/vim/vim80/plugin/matchparen.vim
The function to begin investigating a vim failure for highlighting matching brackets is called: Highlight_Matching_Pair()
. Do an echo and a sleep and step through the code until matchaddpos(...)
runs.
set showmatch
is your best bet. you can also use the % command to jump between matching parenthesis, braces, brackets, quotes, etc.
DoMatchParen
in your .vimrc
file
or
:DoMatchParen
within vim itself.
Edit: This comes from the pi_paren plugin (which is a standard plugin).
Maybe what you want is this plugin:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=350