Perl monking (was Menu{Master,Maestro,etc} question(s)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:22:04PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The vim option to have the cursor momentarily jump to the matching
> delimiter is ``showmatch'', and can be turned off in your $HOME/.vimrc
> file.  Personally I like it on.
> 
> You can turn off that obnoxious coloration with ``:syntax off'' or
> something similar in the $HOME/.vimrc file.  Fairlite has a color setting
> that he likes as well.
> 
> Personally I only turn the syntax highlighting on when I'm chasing a syntax
> error that's probably caused by failing to close a quote somewhere because
> I find the highlighting colors unreadable.

I've found that :color evening works better than the default for me.

But the feature I was talking about isn't showmatch -- that comes from
Classic vi.  This is when vim color-highlights the matching bracket for
anything the cursor's sitting on.

Cheers,
-- jra
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