I installed the vim editor and the plugin script called matchit.vim in order to debug a shell script that isn't taking the right branch. I did the :help matchit-install command which gives you instructions for installing matchit.vim in one's own directory and all of that seemed to go perfectly. I ended up with a directory of ~/.vim and the subdirectories ~/.vim/doc and ~/.vim/plugin. The plugin directory now has matchit.vim and the doc directory has matchit.txt. After doing the :helptags ~/.vim/doc command, the help tags work and I can do, for example :help g% and see those instructions. The .vimrc file I use is supposed to activate matchit on startup and it does appear to modify vim's behavior but not the right way. If I go to an if statement, for instance, and hit the % key, absolutely nothing happens. The same is true with the g% command which is supposed to go in reverse. If you are at an endif, it should put you on the if that went with it. Again, nothing, so much as a beep happens. I installed vim and matchit.vim on 3 systems, one is FreeBSD and the rest are all Debian Linux and all are misbehaving in exactly the same way which tells me it's me, but I am not sure what I misinterpreted. I might have .vimrc set up in such a way that it is not working due to comflicting commands. If, for instance, the compatible flag is set, matchit won't work so I have nocompatible set. Here is the .vimrc file. If one of you has gotten this to work, I would appreciate any advice since it all seemed very straight-forward. The .vimrc file follows: set nocompatible :runtime macros/matchit.vim :let b:match_words = &matchpairs set noruler set tw=70 End of .vimrc Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list