| Bram Moolenaar | 3991dab | 2006-03-27 17:01:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | *pi_paren.txt* For Vim version 7.0c. Last change: 2006 Mar 24 |
| Bram Moolenaar | 5e3cb7e | 2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
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| 4 | VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar |
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| 7 | Highlighting matching parens *matchparen* |
| 8 | |
| 9 | The functionality mentioned here is a |standard-plugin|. |
| 10 | This plugin is only available if 'compatible' is not set. |
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| 12 | You can avoid loading this plugin by setting the "loaded_matchparen" variable: > |
| 13 | :let loaded_matchparen = 1 |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The plugin installs CursorMoved autocommands to redefine the match |
| 16 | highlighting. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | To disable the plugin after it was loaded use this command: > |
| 19 | |
| 20 | :NoMatchParen |
| 21 | |
| 22 | And to enable it again: > |
| 23 | |
| 24 | :DoMatchParen |
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| Bram Moolenaar | fd2ac76 | 2006-03-01 22:09:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | The highlighting used is MatchParen. You can specify different colors with |
| Bram Moolenaar | 5e3cb7e | 2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | the ":highlight" command. Example: > |
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| Bram Moolenaar | fd2ac76 | 2006-03-01 22:09:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | :hi MatchParen ctermbg=blue guibg=lightblue |
| Bram Moolenaar | 5e3cb7e | 2006-02-27 23:58:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| 31 | The characters to be matched come from the 'matchpairs' option. You can |
| 32 | change the value to highlight different matches. Note that not everything is |
| 33 | possible. For example, you can't highlight single or double quotes, because |
| 34 | the start and end are equal. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | The syntax highlighting attributes are used. When the cursor currently is not |
| 37 | in a string or comment syntax item, then matches inside string and comment |
| 38 | syntax items are ignored. Any syntax items with "string" or "comment" |
| 39 | somewhere in their name are considered string or comment items. |
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| 41 | ============================================================================== |
| 42 | vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: |