Jump to matching XML tags in Vim

You can do this without additional plugins:

  • place cursor on the tag
  • vat – will select the (outer) tag and place cursor on the end
  • once you’ve got your selection you can toggle between the top and bottom with o (update based on Michael Gruber’s note)
  • c – change or, y – copy or, escape for leaving visual mode …

Another useful operation is: vit – will select content of the tag (inner).

Update (thanks to @elrado) Example: vito will enable you to select inner content of the tag and position cursor on the beginning of the selected text.

Reference: https://superuser.com/questions/182355/how-can-i-select-an-html-tags-content-in-vim

Vim reference (thanks to @Geek for noting this out):

:help visual-operators

you’ll get:

4. Operating on the Visual area             *visual-operators*

The objects that can be used are:
    ...
    at  a <tag> </tag> block (with tags)        |v_at|
    it  inner <tag> </tag> block            |v_it|
    ...

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