On Monday, October 1, 2012 10:03:14 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> 
> Handling an arbitrary level of balanced matched pairs with regular 
> expressions is not a solvable problem, which is why I haven't responded 
> before. Handling a limited level is solvable but extremely ugly.
> 

I did just learn that Perl and some other dialects have introduced recursive 
patterns allowing balanced matching...but I haven't wrapped my head around that 
method just yet, and as far as I know Vim supports no such concept.

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