From: Jeff Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2009-05-22T13:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: vim and '%': no brackets, how to navigate instead?

Markus Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> coming from languages which extensively use brackets I'm very accustomed
> in using % to jump between start/end. How this is getting a bit tricky,
> if not to say "no possible" because of the lack of all the brackets
> (which I find refreshing, btw).
> 
> But I guess it's not that easy, % would need to be able to jump between
> "class" and "end", "if" and "end", "while" and "end", etc.
> 
> Is there an easy way to change this behavior or is there some kind of
> ready-made plugin available?

Yes:
http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org/

I also highly recommend:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39