Hi jaywee,
The simplest way is using a mapping
inoremap { {<cr>}<esc>O
which should do what you want.
But I myself find this terrible annying because it always inserts those
closing braces.
That's why I've written some kind of context sensitive completion
http://www.mawercer.de/marcweber/vim/installer/vimlib_contextcompletion_installer_sourceme.vim
After sourceing you can save to different folder and use set
runtime+=differentfolder.
Then you can use
call vl#lib#completion#contextcompletion#InitContextCompletion(
\ [ [ "Tab",'<tab>','b:tab_compl']
\ , [ "MCR" ,"<m-cr>" ,'b:mcr_compl', "\<cr>" ]
\ , [ "CR" ,"<cr>" ,'b:cr_compl', "\<cr>" ]
\ , [ "BO" ,"{" ,'b:bo_compl', "{" ]
\ ]
\ )
" this will generate severeal commands
" You are interested in
" (BO = brace open ;)
AddBOCompletion bcm: {\<cr>}\<esc>O
If you only want this behaviour after functions and whiles I'd suggest
AddBOCompletion bcm:)$ {\<cr>}\<esc>O
which means do this only if the regex )$ matches before the cursor
Here are some further examples which map
d
id
<
"
to
#ifdef
#include <|>
#include "|"
function! vl#dev#cpp#context_completions#AddCPPCompletions()
AddTabCompletion ^d \<bs>#define ts:
AddTabCompletion ^id \<bs>\<bs>#ifdef\<cr>#endif\<esc>-A ts:
AddTabCompletion ^< \<bs>#include\<space><>\<left>
AddTabCompletion ^\" \<bs>#include\<space>\"\"\<left>
endfunction
If more than one context matches you'll get a list or can resolve it by adding
AddTabCompletion a a\<space>tab\<space>pressed
AddTabCompletion a a\<space>tab\<space>pressed2 fitness:2
which means use the second because its fitness is greater.
I've mapped opening cloning brace to <m-cr> (AddMCRCompletion) to be able to
decide wether I want this behaviour..
My scipts are overkill for this task but they might become handy if you
really many mappings because you can map more than one string/action to
the same key.
Marc
