Re: brackets placement in vim

[Gerald Lai]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Justin Randall wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know if there is an easy way to fix the placement of { } 
brackets in vim
so that they fall two or three spaces intented. For example in a C++ file I'm 
currently
working on, I have:

if (pExample != NULL)
{
   // code here
}

What I would like is to have the brackets indented from the edge of the page 2 
or 3
spaces.  Such as:

if (pExample != NULL)
 {
   // code here
 }

Any ideas as to how I can achieve this?

Assuming your code curly brackets are correctly aligned, and there's
only whitespace before them, you can do

  :%s/^\s*[{}]/  &

to add 2 extra spaces in front of every curly bracket on its own line.

HTH :)
--
Gerald