ok, I see your points about why matching isn't on by default... but surely
couldn't
this all by encapsulated by:
:mtc on
the same way that
:syn on
toggles on syntax highlighting?
Ed
> >> a given file, yet 'matchit' turned off?
> >>
> >> IMO, This makes no sense - you need to bounce between tags to get
> >> anything done with
> >> html (likewise all non-bracketed languages like python and ruby ) *far*
> >> more than you
> >> need to see code highlighted, and it is a non-trivial operation to get it
> >> configured
> >> to do the shift-% trick (still going through the docs and figuring it out)
> >>
> >> Could vim possibly be configured in the next release to do the intelligent
> >> thing via
> >> default and to pick up the appropriate matchit commands per file
> >> extension, unless
> >> overriden by another flag?
> >>
> >> Or is there something preventing this from happening? It sure would make
> >> the job
> >> of editing these files a lot easier..
> >>
> >> Ed
>
> 1. Matchit is non-vi-compatible, that's why it isn't installed by default.
> Installing it is a simple matter. You can even make it work for all future
> releases of Vim and matchit in one fell swoop, by creating a file named
> $VIM/vimfiles/plugin/matchit.vim with the following contents:
>
> runtime! macros/matchit.vim
>
> You will still have to copy the matchit help (when it changes) to your
> $VIM/vimfiles/doc/ subdirectory and run ":helptags" there.
>
> 2. Most "modern" ftplugins set b:match_words as a matter of course, at least
> if they can detect that matchit is installed: it works flawlessly for me in
> HTML. Of course it requires filetype plugins to be ON: include either
>
> runtime vimrc_example.vim
> or
> filetype plugin on
>
> somewhere near the top of your vimrc (but after the ":language" command if
> you
> use one).
>
> For some languages, there are no special "words" to be matched: there you can
> get the additional matchit functionality (such as comment skipping) by means
> of some autocommand similar to the following, which I have in my vimrc:
>
> augroup vimrclocal
> au FileType c,cpp,css,javascript
> \ let b:match_words = &matchpairs
> augroup END
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
> Eisenhower was very nice,
> Nixon was his only vice.
> -- C. Degen
>
> >
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