[ale] vi question

[Pete Hardie]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 16:38, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> I guess a recent update to vi has a new functionality that whenever my
> cursor falls on a {[( it automatically shows me the matching one.
>
> I don't know about anyone else, but this has got to be the stupidest
> thing I've ever seen, particularly when you have a goodly number of such
> beasts.
>
> Anyone know how to turn off this bastardization?

set noshowmatch


Seems odd that it just showed up - the feature has been around for decades.



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