% does not jump between def and end, etc (matchit...)

[suan]

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The % key works as expected for single-character block identifiers such as (/), but NOT for multi-char ones such as def/end - such behavior is a staple for being productive in languages like Ruby.

I believe the matchit script/macro provides such functionality for actual Vim - more specifically https://github.com/vim-scripts/ruby-matchit.

There's actually the same reported issue over at vscode-ruby but I'm also creating it here as this might be the more appropriate place to solve the problem...

[haolly]

the latest version is here https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/pack/dist/opt/matchit/plugin/matchit.vim

[Chillee]

@suan If there's a vscode extension, you'd be able to bind % to that command. Otherwise, you should be able to use the ruby-matchit plugin when/if this PR lands.

#1840

[kylesnowschwartz]

Does anyone have a concise workaround to implement this functionality while we wait?

current I'm using [ or ] while in command mode to move between method definition code blocks, but it relies on having spaces between blocks, and doesn't work for single line blocks.

[J-Fields]

As requested in #5805, supporting C/C++'s #if/#endif would be nice

[brandoncc]

I hope this comes eventually!

[technicalpickles]

There is https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redguardtoo.matchit for jumping between parens. It doesn't seem to work well for end and whatnot.

I've tried adding a normal mode key binding for it, but that doesn't seem to work:

    "vim.normalModeKeyBindings": [
    
        {
            "before": ["%"],
            "commands": "bookmarks.list"
        }
    ],

[suan]

Revisiting this as seems like #1840 was closed

Anyone found a way to make this work?

[andrewplummer]

I would love to see this as well. I'm using the matchit extension and a key mappings, however it has issues in Visual* modes, as vscode-vim seems to keep internal state of the selection. It might have to be implemented in vscode-vim itself...

[redguardtoo]

https://github.com/redguardtoo/vscode-matchit 2.0.0 is released. It add a new algorithm. So it's easier to support customized tags in any programming language.

See https://github.com/redguardtoo/vscode-matchit/blob/master/src/cpp.ts for the sample.

Pull requests are welcomed.

See https://github.com/redguardtoo/evil-matchit for regex samples.

[nxmndr]

What would be really neat to have is the two possible matches for xml/html :

• cursor on < => >
• cursor on div => matching div

Somewhat subtle, but I think it's valuable.