How can I stop [Neo]Vim from tracking parens in certain situations?

Question

Whenever I have to do things like this: closeparens = ")]}" or /[)\]}]/ it messes up the parenthesis tracking of the whole file. I could mitigate this with comments:

# complement to ([{ (this is not at all to help with vim's highlighting)
local closeparens="}])"


# don't mind me, just gonna put these here: (((
case $X in
   a) echo 1 ;;
   b) echo 2 ;;
   c) echo 3 ;;
esac

But I'd rather not modify my code because of my text editor.

How would I go about configuring this? No need for an easy answer, if I have to modify the gosh darned source code of vim I will. Just any sort of pointer on where to start would be nice.

(no plugins please, I suffer from libphobia. Also I like messing with vimscript and have a lot of free time at the moment)

Answer 1

You are looking for matchit-zip

The matchit.vim script allows you to configure % to match more than just single characters. You can match words and even regular expressions. Also, matching treats strings and comments (as recognized by the syntax highlighting mechanism) intelligently.

also:

Since vim 6.0, matchit.vim has been included in the standard vim distribution, under the macros/ directory

but IMO it's easier to install the plugin linked above.