Wrong matching (HTML)

[ahmedelgabri]

I was working with a very simple HTML when I noticed that the highlighting is not right & that also the transmute doesn't work, here is the HTML

<ul class="btn-group">
  <li>
  </li>
</ul>

and here is the issue:

and here are my settings:

let g:matchup_transmute_enabled = 1
let g:matchup_matchparen_deferred = 1

[andymass]

This matching is actually "by design." The intent is to allow you to iterate through a set of list items using %. It's similar to what happens with if -> else -> endif in vimscript. Note also this behavior is inherited from matchit.zip and is not a proper bug in match-up.

However- I agree that it is quite surprising in HTML. In particular, the chain </li> to <li> to </ul> breaks a goal that % should form a closed cycle which eventually returns to the starting word. I would be interested in an enhancement that allows you to iterate through list items while also matching tags as normal, but I have not come up with an idea how to do this yet.

If you simply prefer to disable it and treat <ul>/<li> like any other tag, you can place this in your vimrc. This also repairs the transmute ability.

let g:matchup_matchpref = { 'html': { 'nolists': 1 } }