From: Tim Hammerquist <penryu@...>
Date: 2005-11-20T18:02:27+09:00
Subject: Re: matchit.vim (was: why is my array a hash?)

Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> wrote:
> Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> > It looks like either matchit.vim is not being loaded (is it
> > in your ~/.vim/plugin/ directory?)  or ftplugin/ruby.vim
> > isn't being loaded.
>
> It *is* loaded - I tested that by introducing an error (iif
> instead of if) in the matchit.vim file, and that was detected:
>
> Error detected while processing /home/wybo/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim:
> line   40:
> E492: Not an editor command: iif exists("loaded_matchit") || &cp
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> In my ~/.vim I have:
>
> /doc:
> total 24
> -rw-r--r--  1 wybo users 18998 20040512 16:28:33 matchit.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 wybo users  1961 20051119 13:29:28 tags
>
> /plugin:
> total 32
> -rw-r--r--  1 wybo users 30374 20040515 17:10:28 matchit.vim
>
> /syntax:
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--  1 wybo users 1119 20050705 06:58:57 eruby.vim
> -rw-r--r--  1 wybo users 4081 20051119 13:26:41 ruby.vim
>
> Is that correct?

Yup.  However, Item 6 in ftplugin/ruby.vim maybe be misleading.
matchit.vim doesn't set the b:match_words variable.  This is
done by the language-specific ftplugins (the ones that support
matchit, anyway).  Thus, echo'ing the b:match_world var will
only work from inside the buffer of a ruby file.

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but... with the setup
you describe above, and with the active buffer being a correctly
identified ruby file, does the `:echo b:match_words` test work?

If you still have trouble, try asking on the vim-ruby-devel ML,
found at <http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=16>.

HTH,
Tim Hammerquist