Tip #362: matchit.vim and coldfusion (and perhaps others)

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created:		November 7, 2002 2:19		complexity:		basic
author:		zzapper		as of Vim:		5.7

Hi VIMmites I couldn't get any tags to match in Coldfusion files *.cfm either HTML Javascript or ColdFusion tags themselves <cfif ..> ... </cfif> Much pain was gone thru before I realised that the Syntax File for ColdFusion (/syntax/cf.vim) was called cf and not cfm Therefore in matchit.cfm I need to add CF in following line and NOT CFM au FileType html,jsp,php,cf if !exists("b:match_words") | zzapper

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[email protected], November 7, 2002 6:18

I meant edit matchit.vim (not matchit.cfm)

[email protected], May 25, 2004 21:04

Ok, Where is this supposed to go exactly? I'm a little confused.

Anonymous, October 18, 2004 14:43

this is a fairly complex topic and I can't outdo the included docs; It's not as quick to set up as really any other of vims powerful features that I have used before, but its very worthwhile though, if you ask me. Note that it's still quite easy, but usually vim has all the work done for you already with a full install. Start with :h matchit-install Then follow its instructions to install matchit and get the help loaded for it for the rest of the info. That is a very general guide for dealing with just about any language, but if you're doing coldfusion, I will add one more shortcut for you. You'll probably want to start with this, in ~/.vim/ftplugin/cf.vim (or vimfiles\ftplugin\cf.vim ) let b:match_words = '<cfif:<cfelse:<\/cfif,' \ . '<cfloop:<\/cfloop,' \ . '<cfquery:<\/cfquery,' \ . '<cfscript:<\/cfscript' Don't forget filetype plugin on in your main vimrc, or that will not be processed.

Anonymous, October 18, 2004 14:57

For the benefit of googlers, I am going to mention that the point of this tip is to help people configure vim so that one can use the % (percent sign) to jump from word to word, using matched pairs like those mentioned above while writing coldfusion cfm files.




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