On 2/5/18 2:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/4/2018 11:34 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 2/2/18 7:10 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/1/2018 6:09 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 1/31/18 9:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/31/2018 5:37 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Where it breaks down is when you have many nested tags, and you
end with )))))
Long ago, I adjusted my text editor so that when the cursor is
placed on ), the matching ( is found. Ditto for { }, [ ], < >, and
#if/#elif/#else/#endif (!). It's been incredibly convenient.
This has literally been in vim since I started using it, what, 15
years ago? It doesn't matter.
The #if too?
Yes. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Moving_to_matching_braces
So I see. I wonder when that was added to vim. I put it in MicroEmacs in
the late 1980s, and vi definitely didn't have it then. I didn't put in
Pascal begin/end, because I didn't care for Pascal :-)
I should clarify -- the matching parentheses feature has been in vim
forever (note -- vim didn't exist in the last 80s, straight vi I think
doesn't have these features). I don't know how long the matching
#if/#endif feature has been there, I haven't used it much.
A nice feature of this is that the "jump to match" command is like any
other move command in vim -- you can hook it to copy/pasting, deleting,
formatting, etc. It's very useful.
But this is a bit off topic :)
-Steve
