Is there a way to change the default text object %, also a second question

[oredaze]

I get why it is %, but for me that is not ergonomic at all. I would like to change it to b for block or brackets. So for example ci% becomes cib. Waay easier to type.

Second question: I notice that matchup's commands don't act like vim's native ci({[ commands in the sense that if no pair is present under the cursor, vim first goes to it and then it executes the command, kinda like first doing z% and then ci%. I suppose I can do some custom binding, but maybe there is already a way to do it? It seems like a good default functionality.
Maybe this should be a feature request, what do you think?

[andymass]

(1) is already supported, but you'll have to specify each customization individually; for instance:

xmap ib <plug>(matchup-i%)
omap ib <plug>(matchup-i%)
xmap ab <plug>(matchup-a%)
omap ab <plug>(matchup-a%)

There are not that many, perhaps 20 maps at most and depends on your preferences. We cannot possibly have an option to override all % maps, since it would also override b itself which is non-sense.

(2) Let me see if this can be supported. Initially it seems like it would be rarely useful since most of the time you are inside some { } editing code. But then it wouldn't hurt either.