On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:01:34AM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
> >Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> >>Anyone know of a way to achieve bracket completion? For example if
> >>your typing a if statement, if (something) { once you type the first
> >>bracket
> >>the 2nd one is inserted below for you. Scribes and a few other editors
> >>have this functionality and was hoping to achieve it with Vim. Another
> >>thing that this does, if you were to type $data[' for example. The 2nd '
> >>would be inserted for you after your cursor. Just seems to save time
> >>when I played with scribes a few days ago. I was looking through the
> >>help, scripts and mailing list archives for something like this but have
> >>not hit any matches. Just wondering if people have ideas on how this
> >>could be done or maybe know of an existing way. Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>--Greg
> >>
> >
> > :inoremap { {<CR>}<Up><End>
> > :inoremap [ []<Left>
> > :inoremap ( ()<Left>
> >
> >etc.
> >
> >This assumes brace indenting is taken care of (by 'cindent' or
> >'indentexpr').
> >
> >IIUC, you can still enter an "unpaired brace" (or bracket or paren) by
> >prefixing it with Ctrl-V (or with Ctrl-Q if Ctrl-V pastes).
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Tony.
>
> P.S. If you implement it for quotes, you may want to disable it for
> vimscript, which has unpaired double quotes (marking off comments) and
> unpaired single and double quotes (in the argument of ":normal" for
> registers or marks).
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
> hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
> 156. You forget your friend's name but not her e-mail address.
Great advice Tony. Thanks for the really quick response as well.
I'll just add a statment enabling this for certain languages. This has
also giving me a couple new ideas to play with. Thanks again. :)
--Greg
