vim/linux doesn't highlight mismatched parens in scripts

[Alex A. Naanou]

fpm at u.washington.edu (Frank Miles) wrote in message news:<b4djgo$1vk8$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
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> Does this happen with all vim installations?  Or is it peculiar to my
> installation/configuration?
This a normal situation, as vims' default python ftplugin script is somewhat
incomplete (at-least to my liking :) ), this and allot of other options are 
just not configured...

try the following:
:set showmatch


and see
:he 'showmatch'
:he 'matchtime'

                                Best Regards...
                                          Alex.