Is there a highlight for builtin matchit?

[ndavd]

Hi, I found that neovim's builtin matchit works very well and I don't need an external plugin to improve it. But upon removing that plugin my highlighting of matched words also got removed. I searched matchit docs but found no highlight groups. Is there one? If not, why isn't this a builtin feature?

[clason]

The highlight doesn't come from matchit but from matchparen and is -- wait for it -- MatchParen.

[ndavd]

For me MatchParen highlight is only working on {}, [], etc. Not on actual words, like if end, function end, etc.

EDIT: Upon reading the docs it says it highlights the character under the cursor, not the word. So I'm guessing that the functionality I mentioned is indeed missing.

[zeertzjq]

Those are not supported by matchparen.

[ndavd]

When I do % on a lua function end it hops, even if I disabled Treesitter and LSP. So it seems builtin

[clason]

When I do % on a lua function end it hops, even if I disabled Treesitter and LSP. So it seems builtin

Yes, that is matchit (which is bundled and therefore loaded with --clean), which has basic "generic syntax" (read: C) support builtin. But it doesn't highlight anything; the only highlights you get is from matching delimiters via matchparen.

[ndavd]

Oh that's unfortunate, it would be great if there was MatchIt highlight or something (could perhaps be linked to MatchParen by default). Do you think it's worth it to open a feature request?

[clason]

Not here; you can open an issue at the matchit repo https://github.com/chrisbra/matchit. (But check if the standalone plugin already has that; if so, you can ask chrisbra to update the bundled version in Vim. It does not.)

[ndavd]

Thank you!

[ndavd]

chrisbra/matchit#45