From: jason r tibbetts <tibbetts@...>
Date: 2004-01-10T00:39:21+09:00
Subject: Re: block delimiting

Jamis,

> >"begin"/"end" keywords prevent editors like vi from being able to "bounce"
> (%)
> >between braces and showing matches. That's my only pet peeve with Ruby. (Of
> >course, closures can be written with braces, but methods can't.)
> 
> Well, a plug here for vim: it's got a script/plugin you can get that 
> allows you to specify keywords to bounce (via %) between--pretty 
> powerful, really.  So you can specify that you want to bounce between 
> def/end,
> begin/end, while/end, do/end, if/end, etc.  I find it invaluable.
> 
> If you're interested, you can get it at:
> 
>   http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39
> 
> It doesn't come with Ruby support, but it's not hard to add.

Thanks for the fantastic tip. I do use vim, but I haven't bothered customizing
it--in fact, because my video card/monitor setup is so archaic, I couldn't even
use syntax highlighting for the first three years that I used vim.

-- 
jason

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