Matchit not working

Question

I am using Macvim 7.3 snapshot 57. I can't seem to get matchit to work in any of my files.

I press % on an opening tag. It doesn't take me to the closing tag...

My vimrc file:

" Pathogen settings call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles() call pathogen#helptags()  set nocompatible  set number set ruler set cursorline syntax on  " Disable all blinking set guicursor+=a:blinkon0  " Whitespace stuff set nowrap set tabstop=2 set shiftwidth=2 set expandtab set cindent set smartindent set autoindent set list listchars=tab:\ \ ,trail:·  " Searching set hlsearch set incsearch set ignorecase set smartcase  " Status bar set laststatus=2  " Start without the toolbar set guioptions-=T  " Default gui color scheme " "color default " color molokai color railscasts+  " Command-/ to toggle comments map <D-/> :TComment<CR>j  " Remember last location in file if has("autocmd")   au BufReadPost * if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$")     \| exe "normal g'\"" | endif endif  " Thorfile, Rakefile and Gemfile are Ruby au BufRead,BufNewFile {Gemfile,Rakefile,Thorfile,config.ru} set ft=ruby  " Open split buffers below instead of above current buffer set splitbelow  " Session options let g:session_autoload = 1 let g:session_autosave = 1  " Buffer navigation map <C-K> <C-W><C-K> map <C-J> <C-W><C-W> map <C-H> <C-W><C-H> map <C-L> <C-W><C-L>  " Rails navigation options nmap <leader>rc :Rcontroller  nmap <leader>rv :Rview  nmap <leader>rm :Rmodel   " Tab completion " Also needed for better Rails navigation auto-completion set wildmode=list:longest,list:full  " Open up side panel left (NERDTree) and right(Tagbar) " nmap <leader>\ :NERDTreeToggle<CR> :TagbarToggle<CR> nmap <leader>\ :call ToggleNERDTreeAndTagbar()<CR>  " Allow single click for NERDTree let NERDTreeMouseMode = 3 let g:NERDTreeWinSize = 30 " autocmd VimEnter * NERDTree  " Tagbar options let tagbar_singleclick = 1 let g:tagbar_sort = 0 let g:tagbar_width = 30 " autocmd VimEnter * nested TagbarOpen  " The Janus plugin sets this to noequalalways for the Zoominfo plugin " However, we want to set this to equalalways instead, since we want to " have equal window height when a new window is opened. i.e. via ctrl+w+s set equalalways  " Matchit already installed in newer versions of vim. " Don't need to add this onto pathogen bundle folder. We only need " to configure it. " Configure matchit so that it goes from opening tag to closing tag au FileType html,eruby,rb,css,js,xml runtime! macros/matchit.vim  " Set backup and swp dir. Don't forget to clear tmp dir out once in a while set backupdir=~/.vim/tmp/backup set directory=~/.vim/tmp/swp  " Detect if a tab was closed, and ensure that height of main window fills the screen (100% height) au TabEnter * let &lines = 100  " <leader>\ to open or close NERDTree and Tagbar, under the following conditions: " 1) Only close both if NERDTree and Tagbar are both opened " 2) Open both if NERDTree and Tagbar are closed OR if one is already opened function! ToggleNERDTreeAndTagbar()   let w:jumpbacktohere = 1    " Detect which plugins are open   if exists('t:NERDTreeBufName')       let nerdtree_open = bufwinnr(t:NERDTreeBufName) != -1   else       let nerdtree_open = 0   endif   let tagbar_open = bufwinnr('__Tagbar__') != -1    " Perform the appropriate action   if nerdtree_open && tagbar_open       NERDTreeClose       TagbarClose   elseif nerdtree_open       TagbarOpen   elseif tagbar_open       NERDTree   else       NERDTree       TagbarOpen   endif    " Jump back to the original window   for window in range(1, winnr('$'))     execute window . 'wincmd w'     if exists('w:jumpbacktohere')       unlet w:jumpbacktohere       break     endif   endfor endfunction 

Answer 1

Since Vim comes shipped with matchit plugin, all I needed to do was activate it:

vim ~/.vimrc 

Then add the following into your .vimrc:

set nocompatible filetype plugin on runtime macros/matchit.vim