Question

When I browse code in Vim, I need to see opening and closing parenthesis/ brackets, and pressing % seems unproductive.

I tried :set showmatch, but it makes the cursor jump back and forth when you type in a bracket. But what to do if I am browsing already written code?

Answer 1

DoMatchParen 

in your .vimrc file

or

:DoMatchParen 

within vim itself.

Edit: This comes from the pi_paren plugin (which is a standard plugin).