For 40 years, brace matching in vi has been part of my workflow, and for the most part, it works great! One of the first things I look for in a new editor is this feature. But sometimes, it breaks down. Consider a PHP line like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
if (stripos($str, '{+') !== false) {<\/pre>\n\n\n\nAs soon as you do something like that, your brace matching in vim falls apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there’s a fix! The incredible matchit<\/a> mod for vim by Benji Fisher<\/a>. Handles THOUSAND LINE if blocks (this is legacy<\/strong> code, my friends) like a knife through butter. Thank you Benji! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 40 years, brace matching in vi has been part of my workflow, and for the most part, it works great! One of the first things I look for in a new editor is this feature. But sometimes, it breaks down. Consider a PHP line like: if (stripos($str, ‘{+’) !== false) { As soon as … Continue reading vi brace matching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-software-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}