Highlighting unmatched brackets in vim

Question

I\'m getting burned repeatedly by unmatched parentheses while writing python code in vim. I like how they\'re handled for C code - vim highlights in red all of the curly br

Answer 1

You can get vim to do the opposite: do a

:set showmatch

and it will highlight matching parens. You'll know when you're unbalanced when it doesn't highlight something.

I'm also assuming you're familiar with the '%' command, which bounces you to the matching element.