Basically, I set it up so that when you're in perl and have a non keyword charcter, (except for @, $ and % for perl) and you type a { you get: { | <- cursor } Whereas, when I have a keyword I get: word{} With the cursor in the middle, for hashes in perl. I can jump out of any block, except the "..." or '...' blocks, by typing their closing character. So } jumps me out past the next } in the file. Warning, this search may wrap around. Finally, I made it so that, using the alt key,