How to jump between markdown code chunk fence?

Question

Is there a way to jump between beginning and end of a markdown based code chunk?

I know I can use / to search for the code chunk markers (e.g. /```) but I was hoping there was a way to do like we can do with % for open/closing parenthesis or I understand there is some tag functionality too - but not sure if it can be adopted for the below use case.

```{r} (<< I want to be able to jump between here and ...)

Some code text

Some more code text

``` (<< here)

Answer 1

I would use the matchit plugin that comes in modern version of Vim.

You can install it with:

packadd! matchit

Or from GitHub and vim-plug with:

Plug 'chrisbra/matchit'

To match the ``` fence you have to add ```.\+:``` to b:match_words

You can do that by adding the following code into: ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/markdown.vim

if match(b:match_words, '```') == -1
  let b:match_words = b:match_words . ',```.\+:```'
endif