So, Vim, like most programming-minded text editors, highlights a matching "scope" character (such as ( and ), < and >, and { and }).
I'm wondering, is there a motion to reach that character from the other? Like, with the caret on a <, to move to the (highlighted) matching >?
I know [action]t> or [action]f> would accomplish something similar. That's not what I'm asking.
The motion is: %.
Used alone, this jumps between open/close pairs based on the value of the matchpairs option.
But angle brackets - <> - aren't included by default. They may be set based on the filetype. The HTML filetype plugin sets it, so if you're opening HTML files you'll be able to use % to jump between matching angle brackets. But not for e.g. C++/Java.
To add angle brackets if they aren't jumped when using %, use:
:set matchpairs+=<:>
Now using % on angle brackets should jump to the matching bracket.
See :help 'matchpairs' and :help various-motions - % is the first mentioned - for more details.
Yes, the % keystroke does this. See Moving to matching braces for more information.
