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pakeha
pakeha

Reputation: 2500

Vim: Highlight keyword pairs in Ruby (def/end, do/end, etc)

In one of the Eclipse-based editors that I tried out recently (I think it was RubyMine), when a Ruby keyword that either opened or closed a method or block was selected, the corresponding open/close keyword was highlighted. Similar to the way that Vim is able to highlight a corresponding open/close parenthesis.

For instance, if I selected a 'def', it would highlight the corresponding 'end'. It also worked for do/end blocks.

This was really handy, especially for those long and sometimes heavily nested Rspec files.

Does anybody know how to achieve this in Vim?

Upvotes: 32

Views: 6937

Answers (4)

12init
12init

Reputation: 127

I found this plugin while searching for the answer on the same problem it works for basic ruby code, but I didn't test it out for Rspec etc.

Just install it via pathogen and add let g:hl_matchit_enable_on_vim_startup = 1

https://github.com/vimtaku/hl_matchit.vim

Upvotes: 2

deterb
deterb

Reputation: 4014

If you are using Vim 7.3, you should have the MatchIt vim macro available.

Add runtime macros/matchit.vim to your .vimrc file and you should be able to use % to match the ruby blocks.

You can look at the filetype plugin for ruby to see what it will move between.

Upvotes: 18

Omar Ali
Omar Ali

Reputation: 8617

VIM (until 7.2) can't highlight a closing 'if/end' pairs because the matching settings accepts a single character (see :help matchpairs). I recommend using folding instead, provided that you accurately indent your code:

:set foldmethod=indent

Then use: zc, za to make sure you're in the right block.

Upvotes: 10

Taryn East
Taryn East

Reputation: 27747

Looks like this vim plugin does paren-matching: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/pi_paren.html you could probably dig into that code to see how to extend it to matching other things.

Upvotes: 2

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