For whats its worth you guys thoroughly answered my question and its working well here (I was the original poster). Thanks a bunch!
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Philip Rhoades<[email protected]> wrote: > > Tony, > > > On 2009-08-22 15:38, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> On 12/08/09 04:08, Gary Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-08-12, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>>> On 2009-08-12 05:49, Gary Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 2009-08-12, Philip Rhoades wrote: >>>>>> But when I checked, the matchit plugin was not there so I downloaded and >>>>>> installed it but still no improvement so I read the doc (!) and changed >>>>>> the last line in .vimrc to: >>>>>> >>>>>> :source ~phil/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim >>>>>> >>>>>> but still no joy. What is really odd is that "g%" ie the reverse >>>>>> movement works fine! >>>>>> >>>>>> I have: >>>>>> >>>>>> vim v7.2.148-1 >>>>>> matchit.vim v1.13.2, for Vim 6.3+ >>>>> I suppose the problem could be some other plugin interfering with >>>>> these. To make sure it wasn't working for me because of some >>>>> peculiarity of my setup, I started vim like this: >>>>> >>>>> vim -N -u NONE >>>>> >>>>> Then within vim, executed these: >>>>> >>>>> :runtime macros/matchit.vim >>>> >>>> This works OK. >>>> >>>> >>>>> :filetype detection on >>>> >>>> This gives: >>>> >>>> E475: Invalid argument: detection on >>> I'm sorry--that should have been >>> >>> :filetype plugin on >>> >>>>> :e foo.rb >>>>> >>>>> where foo.rb contains your example code. The % worked fine. Try >>>>> that and see if it works any better for you. That's pretty much >>>>> what you already tried with your simple .vimrc except that your >>>>> experiment also loaded all your plugins as well, whereas starting >>>>> vim with -u NONE also inhibits the loading of plugins. >>>>> Alternatively, you could repeat your experiment but start vim as >>>>> >>>> > vim --noplugin >>>> >>>> >>>> Still have the same problem with this: >>>> >>>> vim --noplugin t.rb >>>> >>>> where t.rb is: >>>> >>>> #!/usr/bin/env ruby >>>> >>>> x = 1 >>>> >>>> if (x == 1) >>>> puts 'Yesss' >>>> else >>>> puts 'Noooo' >>>> end >>> I'm at a loss then. I've tried it on straight Windows on a >>> different PC with gvim 7.2.148 from Cream, and on a Red Hat Linux >>> system with vim 7.2.148 I built myself, and it just works. I don't >>> know enough about the internals of either the ruby.vim plugin or >>> the matchit.vim script to know how to troubleshoot this further. >>> For what it's worth, if I execute this from vim on Linux when >>> editing a Ruby file (so that ft=ruby), >> [...] >> >> After having rtead all this thread, let's try to revive it. >> >> The reason matchit.vim is in macros/, not in plugin/, is that it is >> vi-incompatible and therefore not loaded by default. >> >> To have it sourced whenever Vim is started with global plugins enabled, >> add the following one-line file as ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim (for Unix) >> or ~/vimfiles/plugin/matchit.vim (for Windows): >> >> runtime macros/matchit.vim > > > Done. > > >> Also copy $VIMRUNTIME/macros/matchit.txt to ~/.vim/doc/ or >> ~/vimfiles/doc/ depending on platform (on Unix you can make a symlink >> instead) then run the ":helptags" command (q.v.) on that directory. >> Create any not-yet-existent needed directories as you go along. > > > Done. > > >> This should be enough to run matchit together with the standard plugins >> and to enable its help. It should also work from then on ion other >> filetypes, for instance in vimscript on if / elseif / else / endif >> structures, or while / endwhile, for / endfor, try / catch / finally / >> endtry... > > > No luck - the cursor still jumps as previously described . . > > >> Optionally (as a last flourish), you can also add the following to your >> vimrc: >> >> au VimEnter * au FileType * if !exists(b:match_words) >> \ | let b:match_words =&matchpairs | endif >> >> so that 'matchpairs' will still work for filetypes whose ftplugin does >> not define b:match_words. The double autocommand structure is to make it >> the last Filetype autocommand, so that ftplugins take precedence, and >> that any 'matchpairs' setting set by a non-matchit-aware ftplugin is used. > > > No change . . > > Thanks anyway . . > > I can supply my .vimrc file if there is something in there that might be > an issue. > > Phil. > -- > Philip Rhoades > > GPO Box 3411 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > E-mail: [email protected] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
