The "matchit" plugin for vim is supposed to allow you to use the % key to jump between matching start/end tags when editing HTML, as well as /* and */ comment delimiters when editing other kinds of code.
I've followed the exact instructions in ":help matchit", but % still doesn't work for me.
It seems silly to ask "Why doesn't this work?" so instead I'm asking How can I diagnose the problem? Pointers to references are welcome, but specific vim-plugin-debugging techniques are preferred.
Here is the ~/.vim directory:
$ ls -ltaGR ~/.vim
/cygdrive/y/.vim:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 17 13:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:59 doc
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:58 plugin
/cygdrive/y/.vim/doc:
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 spause 1961 Sep 16 13:59 tags
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:59 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 spause 19303 Sep 16 13:58 matchit.txt
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:58 ..
/cygdrive/y/.vim/plugin:
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 spause 30714 Sep 16 13:58 matchit.vim
drwxr-xr-x 1 spause 0 Sep 16 13:58 .
I am running vim 7.2 under Cygwin (installed Fall 2008). cygcheck shows:
1829k 2008/06/12 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.25
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 156
Shared data: 4
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Thu Jun 12 19:34:46 CEST 2008
CVS tag: cr-0x5f1
Shared id: cygwin1S4
In vim, :set shows:
--- Options ---
autoindent fileformat=dos shiftwidth=3
background=dark filetype=html syntax=html
cedit=^F scroll=24 tabstop=3
expandtab shelltemp textmode
viminfo='20,<50,s10,h
Notably, the syntax and filetype are both recognized as HTML. (The syntax colouring is just fine.)
If additional info is needed, please comment.
UPDATE:
Per answer by too much php:
After trying vim -V1, I had changed my .vimrc to include a line
set nocp
so the compatible option is not on.
:let loadad_matchit
loaded_matchit #1
:set runtimepath?
runtimepath=~/.vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim72,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,~/.vim/after
(~ is /cygdrive/y)
Per answer by michael:
:scriptnames
1: /cygdrive/y/.vimrc
2: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim
3: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/synload.vim
4: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syncolor.vim
5: /usr/share/vim/vim72/filetype.vim
6: /usr/share/vim/vim72/colors/evening.vim
7: /cygdrive/y/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim
8: /cygdrive/y/.vim/plugin/python_match.vim
9: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
10: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/gzip.vim
11: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/matchparen.vim
12: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
13: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/rrhelper.vim
14: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/spellfile.vim
15: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
16: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/tohtml.vim
17: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
18: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
19: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/html.vim
20: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/javascript.vim
21: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/vb.vim
22: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/css.vim
Note that matchit.vim, html.vim, tohtml.vim, css.vim, and javascript.vim are all present.
:echo b:match_words
E121: Undefined variable: b:match_words
E15: Invalid expression: b:match_words
Hm, this looks highly relevant. I'm now looking through :help matchit-debug to find out how to fix b:match_words.
