how to get matchit to work with % with key mapping on vim?

Question

i'm trying to get vim to select between matching html tags including the parent tags.. Following are two mappings i tried..

nnoremap <leader>h <s-v><s-5>

or

nnoremap <leader>h <s-v>%

but nothing seems to work. the problem is '%' doesn't perform the extended(with the matchit plugin) action which is selecting the matching closing html tag..

Answer 1

You can use :normal! and :execute to run normal commands without remapping. eg

nmap <leader>h :execute "normal! V"<cr>%

This command is really similar to using the "a tag block", at , text-object. eg vat . Of course you can do what you are doing and just execute V% as it is the same number of characters as <leader>h .