[SOLVED] How to get vim help on parenthesis matching?

stf92 · 01-27-2014, 07:24 AM

Hi: inside vim, I can type

Code:

:help something

What would 'something' be to get help on parenthesis matching. Specifically, a color block displays over the first match. How do I change the color?

anon237 · 01-27-2014, 07:28 AM

Try

Code:

:help showmatch

Try this to change colours:

Code:

:hi MatchParen cterm=inverse ctermbg=none ctermfg=red

stf92 · 01-27-2014, 11:39 PM

Thank you. As ':help showmatch' shows

Code:

'showmatch sm'   boolean (default off)
                 global

there should be a way to disable parenthesis matching or any other delimiter matching. Do you know it? In my system sm is on.

EDIT: I found it. It's ':NoMatchParen'. There's more: by placing ':let loaded_matchparen=1' in /usr/share/vim/vimrc the plugin responsible for delimiter matching no longer loads! This thing was driving me crazy.