Thanks for the quick response. I didn't know if there was another shortcut. I've been using find on either { or 'public', 'protected', etc. to quickly move from function to function. I just wanted to see if there was a shortcut I didn't know about. My Vim is a little rusty but already I've saved so much time editing.

paul

Hi Paul,

There is support in vim's regular expressions for a specific column #:

  /\%4c{

would only match an opening brace at column 4. But ViEmu's regular expression engine doesn't (yet) support it. On the other hand, I think it's not comfortable.

I think something different is necessary for what you are asking. I'd be willing to implement something along the line, accessible as g} and g{ for example, but I'd need a good definition of what is needed.

My guess is that you have something like this:

...
{
  ...
  { //1
    ...
    ...
    {
      ...
    }
    ...
  } //end 1
  ...
  { //2
    ...
    ...
    {
      ...
    }
    ...
  } //end 2
}
...

And you want to move along the 1's and 2's... am I right? g{ and g} may accept a count of how many indent levels or spaces to look for, but I'm not sure that's what you need. Can you come up with a pattern so that it will be reasonably simple to find?

I'll give a try to Ng} and Ng{ where N is the number of spaces (with tabs counted as the number of spaces they represent). g} and g{ then would just do the same as ]] and [[. I'll let you know when it's ready.