A plugin for BracketHighlighter for Sublime Text 2 that escapes from a bracketed block. Based on the bracketselect plugin.

blockescape.py

import bh_plugin
import sublime

DEFAULT_TAGS = ["cfml", "html", "angle"]


class BlockEscape(bh_plugin.BracketPluginCommand):
    def run(self, edit, name, tags=DEFAULT_TAGS):
        current_left, current_right = self.selection[0].begin(), self.selection[0].end()
        left, right = self.left, self.right
        first, last = left.end, right.begin
        if left.end != right.end:
            if name in tags and left.size() > 1:
                first, last = right.begin + 1, right.begin + 1
                if first == current_left and last == current_right:
                    first, last = right.end, right.end
            else:
                first, last = right.begin, right.begin
                if first == current_left and last == current_right:
                    first, last = right.end, right.end
        else:
            # There is no second bracket, so just select the first
            if name in tags and left.size() > 1:
                first, last = left.begin + 1, left.begin + 1
            else:
                first, last = right.end, right.end
                if first == current_left and last == current_right:
                    first, last = right.end, right.end

        self.selection = [sublime.Region(first+1, last+1)]


def plugin():
    return BlockEscape