Pendantry: IIRC `{` and `}` work on paragraphs (or contiguous blocks of lines up to the next blank line) rather than code blocks by default. I'm sure it's possible to change that, but once you're changing things there's no reason not to add support for Python indents or Ruby style `def`/`end` blocks as well.
Like you I also generally just use searches or `%` most of the time.
Not pedantic at all, tbh. This is an important distinction. Curly braces are my primary way of moving in vim and it works great even without curly braces in the code (even in pieces of code without delimiters, actually)
Like you I also generally just use searches or `%` most of the time.