VIM is Driving Me Nuts...

[Geoffrey D. Bennett]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:57:51PM +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
[...]
> ...however when I edit a ".php" file (or a Perl file), here is the 
> behaviour I experience:
> 
> When you highlight something that is balanced, for example a { } pair, 
> the block cursor turns off on what you've highlighted and highlights its 
> pair. Naturally, this makes a sensible person [I am sensible] think that 
> the cursor is at the OTHER pair...

Hi David,

You're probably looking for ":help pi_paren.txt".  There's also the
showmatch/matchtime options, but I think that's less likely to be your
problem here.

The behaviour I see isn't that the cursor turns off though, but it
does change colour.  Maybe your terminal doesn't like the colours
(looks like cyan on magenta to me).

Have fun,
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Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX               mailto:g at netcraft.com.au
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