Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part III: matchit.vim
This is the third post in the article series “Vim Plugins You Should Know About“. This time I am going to introduce you to a plugin called “matchit.vim“.
Matchit extends the existing functionality of “%” key (percent key). I’ll first briefly remind you what the original “%” does and then explain how matchit.vim enhances it.
The original “%” key allows you to jump between various pairs of characters and some programming constructs. For example, it jumps between pairs of parenthesis ( )’s, { }’s, [ ]’s. It also jumps between opening and closing tags of C style comments /* and */. And it’s smart enough to jump between C preprocessor directives - from #if to #endif and match #elif or #else in between.
Here is an example. Suppose you have this code and you press “%”, the cursor jumps between { and } parens:
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