Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> (snip)
> Enter following text:
>
> if(1)
> {
> /* ------- {{{3 */
> }
>
> Now try to jump between { using %.
> Bug: The { in the manual fold-markers interferes with %-jumping.
>
> [comments on using the matchit plugin]
>
> % is a feature of Vim -- I am not trying to use % in any
> fancy way, only in the way it is supposed to work under
> regular Vim. I am reporting a bug in vim (and not looking
> for a work-around based on a plugin). The bug is that % is
> not ignoring { within c-comments in a c-file.
Jürgen Krämer wrote:
(snip)
> what did lead you to the conclusion that the behaviour of % -- to
> not ignore matching parentheses inside comments -- is a bug?
>
> In my past experience, % always ignored { inside c-comments
> for c-files (turns out my cpoptions does not include %).
>
> I don't see a place in the help files where % is documented to
> skip comments. You can only force it to skip strings by removing
> % from cpoptions (see ":help cpo-%").
Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> In the steps I gave to reproduce the bug, adding the following:
> :set cpo-=%
> does not make %-jumping skip the { inside comments. So it is a
> bug in Vim.
Jürgen Krämer wrote:
> IMHO ignoring comments while searching for a matching parenthesis might
> be considered a missing feature, but this can easily -- as Tony wrote --
> be implemented by sourcing the matchit plugin.
Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> After adding :set cpo-=% to the steps given in OP to reproduce the bug,
> one sees that there is a bug in Vim.
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Its not a bug. Vi compatible behavior governs this, with one exception:
if a %
is missing from cpoptions, the %-brace matching will skip the innards of
strings.
Vim's documentation doesn't state anything about skipping braces/parentheses
inside of comments. As Jürgen said, it may be nice to ask for a new feature
supporting the skipping of braces inside comments, especially in light
of the
default folding pattern. However, the documentation doesn't claim that
% will
skip over comments but rather that vi-compatible behavior will occur,
hence the
behavior is not a bug.
Perhaps you should ask Bram for a '{' option in cpoptions to support
this idea
for a new feature.
C Campbell
