From: Wolfgang Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Paren highlighting and "jump to"
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:45:49 +0200

> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  (I am vim 7.0.131 on the console only on a recent gentoo Linux system)
> >
> >  I looked into :h paren but found nothing appropiate...
> >
> >  Currently my vim highlights matching parens. This is nice as long
> >  the corrosponding paren are on different lines or at least not
> >  grouped like this:
> >
> >  (x)
> >
> >  Additionally my cursor changes its color depending on whether it is
> >  in insert or normal mode.
> >
> >  When the cursor is at the position of the "x" in the above example,
> >  confusion arises, since so much color on one place is...confusing.
> >
> >  I would like to make the cursor to jump shortly to "the other paren"
> >  as long there is nothing typed in.
> >   
>     Hi,
> 
> I thing what you're looking for is showmatch (:h showmatch), you can set 
> it with
> 
> :set showmatch
> or
> :set sm
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Wolfgang
> 

Hi Wolfgang!

 oh YES! (this is a classical "flat hand against my fore
 head"-effect)!

 Once one sees the solution, it is totally unclear, why one has asked
 for it...

 :)

 Thanks a lot !

 Have a nice weekend!
 mcc

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