Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 17:39, Taylor Hedberg<[email protected]> wrote:
The highlighting you are used to is provided by the matchparen plugin.
'showmatch' and 'matchtime' are, on the other hand, for Vim's built-in
(i.e. not implemented as a plugin) matching functionality, which, rather
than highlighting, jumps the cursor to the matching opening
brace/bracket/parenthesis for a brief time after the closing character
in the pair is typed. Try typing some opening and closing parentheses
after `:set showmatch` and you'll see what I mean. This feature is
turned off by default.
As far as I know, the matchparen plugin does not refer to the
'matchtime' option to determine how long to highlight; it is either on
indefinitely or it is off. Barring modification to the plugin itself, I
don't think there's any way to get precisely what you want.
Thanks Taylor, I see it now. I was testing with existing code,
expecting to put the cursor on a brace and see the match. I now
understand that it only works for typing out new code.
Is there any way to change the behaviour of the matchparen plugin to
underline the matching brace, instead of highlighting it? I often get
confused which is the highlighted brace and which brace has the
cursor.
In quickly diving into matchparen, I see that the matching brace is the
MatchParen highlighting group.
Consequently,
hi clear MatchParen
hi MatchParen gui=underline cterm=underline
should do the trick. When you're happy with it, put these two lines into
.vim/after/plugin/matchparen.vim
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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