Re: Matchtime not working

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 17:39, Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com> 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.

Thanks.

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