[Gllug] Disabling bracket matching in vim

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 10:46:36 UTC 2006


Does anyone know how to do this? Historically, the showmatch option
would do bracket matching while typing. That's fine. However, recent
versions of vim (7.0.042-0.fc5 here) go further than that, and
highlight the matching bracket when you just move the cursor over one,
which is proving to be *really* annoying, and I can't find a way to
turn it off.

Google's brought up the highlight matching bracket script from this page:

http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#VimFuncs

as a possible culprit. However, the HiMtchBrkt script doesn't seem to
be present on my system. Nor do I have any idea how it would be
invoked (or disabled). There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious in
/etc/vimrc, and ":set all" doesn't shed any light.

I'm starting to think that vim is spiraling out of control and into
emacs territory. I just want an editor, with which to edit text. I
don't want a whole bunch of extra features that I don't use, and I
particularly don't want them turned on by default, with no obvious way
to disable them. The complexity of modern vim is such that normal end
users can no longer understand what's going on without some serious
study of various arcane options. Were it not for a couple of features
that I need, I'd be using the vim-minimal package. Maybe it's time to
switch back to nvi.

In the mean time, any clues on how to fix this problem would be
greatly appreciated.

Tet
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