FC6 vim-enhanced - Disabling vim matching brackets highlight

[Cameron B. Prince]

> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James Wilkinson
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:33 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: FC6 vim-enhanced - Disabling vim matching brackets highlight
> 
> Cameron B. Prince wrote:
> > Can someone tell me how to disable the matching brackets highlight
> feature
> > in vim? It's troublesome when using a monochrome terminal.
> 
> A bit of googling and experimentation suggests:
> :help matchparen
> is the Fine Manual to read. It looks like you can turn them off on a
> monochrome terminal but keep them on when colour is available.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.

Hi James,

This did help and I found the best information about it here:

http://vimrc-dissection.blogspot.com/2006/09/vim-7-turn-off-parenparenthesis
whateve.html

It seems like it wasn't intentional for this to make it into the vim
release.

I did Google the problem before making the post, but I was searching for
matching brackets, not parens.

Thanks,
Cameron