vim/linux doesn't highlight mismatched parens in scripts

[Frank Miles]

In article <def34119.0303081921.725524cb at posting.google.com>,
Alex A. Naanou <alex_nanou at pochtamt.ru> wrote:
>fpm at u.washington.edu (Frank Miles) wrote in message news:<b4djgo$1vk8$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
>...
>> 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
>

Thanks, I already have showmatch set; and the use of '%' is pretty cool
too.  Still, nothing like the coloring effect for bash, C, or C++.

	-frank
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