Jumping to matching characters

Certain characters come in opening and closing pairs. For example (), {}, and [].

Sometimes, you’ll want to jump from the opening character to the closing character, or vice-versa. Helix has a command for that: mm in normal mode. The first m opens the match menu, and the second picks “matching bracket”.

(If you’re coming from Vim, note that % is something else entirely in Helix: it selects the whole file.)

There’s some matching bracket pairs set up for you in the editor. Work through the checklist below to put mm through its paces.