Jump to matching XML tags in Vim

Question

Vim % operator jumps to matching parentheses, comment ends and a few other things. It doesn\'t, however, match XML tags (or any other tag, to the best of my kn

Answer 1

You can do this without additional plugins:

• place cursor on the tag
• vat - will select the (outer) tag and place cursor on the end
• once you've got your selection you can toggle between the top and bottom with o (update based on Michael Gruber's note)
• c - change or, y - copy or, escape for leaving visual mode ...

Another useful operation is: vit - will select content of the tag (inner).

Update (thanks to @elrado) Example: vito will enable you to select inner content of the tag and position cursor on the beginning of the selected text.

Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/182355/how-can-i-select-an-html-tags-content-in-vim

Vim reference (thanks to @Geek for noting this out):

:help visual-operators

you'll get:

4. Operating on the Visual area             *visual-operators*

The objects that can be used are:
    ...
    at  a   block (with tags)        |v_at|
    it  inner   block            |v_it|
    ...