Using Vim as an HTML editor

Question

You know how Notepad++ has this feature that when you click on a tag (say ) it automatically highlights the ending tag () as well? What\'s it called? And how do you tweak Vim to

Answer 1

In Fedora 15 matchit.vim comes in the vim-common package. Then add this to your ~/.vimrc to get it working.

source /usr/share/vim/vim73/macros/matchit.vim

Then just press Shift+5 (aka % ) to jump to the matching tag.

When editing an html file without the .html suffix, use the command:

:set filetype=html

to activate the matchit macro.