Make Vim Curly Braces, Square Braces, Parens act like Textmate

Question

So I guess I'm not searching for the right thing but I'm looking to see how you can get VIM to act like Textmate when it comes to writing a set of curly braces, parens, or square brackets hit enter and you get this. Pipe indicates cursor.

      function doSomething(){
          |
      }

      #selector{
          |
      }

Instead of this garbage

      function doSomething(){
      |}

      #selector{
      |}

I already have the [{( closing each other when they are typed just the return and indentation is jacked. As usual any help would be appreciated.

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '11 at 11:18

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I use the following mappings in my .vimrc:

inoremap {<cr> {<cr>}<c-o>O<tab>
inoremap [<cr> [<cr>]<c-o>O<tab>
inoremap (<cr> (<cr>)<c-o>O<tab>

So when I input:

function foo(){<cr>

I get:

function foo(){
    |
}

Similar with (<cr> and [<cr>.

answered May 20 '11 at 11:18

Randy Morris

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thank you man ,, but I want the cursor closer ,,, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6105891/i-want-to-do-vim-snipmate-like-textmate – Tarek Saied May 24 '11 at 09:57
The cursor's position is dictated by your `tabstop` & Co. settings in your .vimrc. Randy's is set to 4, mine is set to 2. You can set it to whatever value you want. – romainl May 24 '11 at 12:07
I wish I could up-vote this twice! Not only did it solve the issue but it taught me about in remap commands. – pian0 May 24 '11 at 13:04
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I removed the tag at the end and I have smartindent as well in .vimrc. Curly braces are added and the caret is put in the right spot. Thanks! – bmoran Mar 27 '14 at 16:11

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '15 at 16:47

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A note to delimitMate users

When using the delimitMate plugin, the mappings of the other answers interfere with the plugin. Luckily, this behavior is already available in delimitMate (but disabled by default), by setting the delmitMateExpansion options. E.g. add

let delimitMate_expand_cr = 1

to your .vimrc

answered May 28 '15 at 16:47

sebastian

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delimitMate is a great plugin and does this without a remap. +1 – Trann Nov 30 '15 at 15:18

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:52

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This is my modification of Randy Moris' answer that works better for me:

inoremap {<cr> {<cr>}<c-o><s-o>
inoremap [<cr> [<cr>]<c-o><s-o>
inoremap (<cr> (<cr>)<c-o><s-o>

answered Sep 06 '13 at 14:52

JustGage

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I also map fot `({ })` with `inoremap ({ ({})` – duleorlovic Aug 16 '17 at 09:09

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 20 '11 at 02:09

My solution for this was to put this little function (with corresponding insert-mode mapping) in my .vimrc:

fun! MyCR()
    if strpart(getline('.'), col('.') - 2, 2) == '{}'
        return "\<CR>\<CR>\<Up>\<Tab>"
    endif
    return "\<CR>"
endfun
autocmd FileType c,cpp inoremap <CR> <C-R>=MyCR()<CR>

You can change the autocmd so that it will work for your preferred file types.

It remaps <CR> in insert mode to check if the cursor is currently inside curly braces and adds the extra line and indentation where appropriate.

And as usually: the only right way to do it is at the bottom and has 0 upvotes. — Slava, Jan 03 '21 at 12:35

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 09 '12 at 21:14

I have the following on my .vimrc

  imap {<Space> {<Space><Space>}<left><left>
  imap { {<CR>}
  imap {<CR> {<CR><CR>}<Up>;<Esc>==i

  imap ( ()
  imap () ()
  inoremap <silent> (. ().<C-x><C-o>
  inoremap <silent> (- ()-><C-x><C-o>
  imap (<space> (<space><space>)<left><left>

  imap [ []
  imap [<space> [<space><space>]<left><left>

  inoremap " ""<left>
  inoremap "" ""

ok, explanations: when you hit {, sometimes you want to break a line and put and ending }, but sometimes you just want to stay in the same line, just like: a = {1,2,3};

# means where the cursor is:

So when you hit { and just after that you hit space -> { # } when you hit { after a little delay or any other than space is used the line will be break when you hit { just after an enter, the code will be:

foo(){
   #
}

When you hit (. results in ().<call to omnicomplete> Just line namespace::Singleton::Create().

You have to use inoremap with ", to avoid infinite """""""""""""""""""""""

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 07 '11 at 11:26

If you like Text make you should check Vim plugin, snipMate, as indicated by tarek11011.

For C/C++ it has by default a snippet for functions

# Function
snippet fun
   ${1:void} ${2:function_name}(${3}) {
      ${4:/* code */}
   }

, which would solve the curly braces issue.

score -2 · Answer 7 · answered May 20 '11 at 02:19

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I have set ai in my vimrc which I believe does what you want?

answered May 20 '11 at 02:19

richo

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Autoindenting just does the indenting automatically for you, the problem is how Vim understands the indenting is supposed to work. – JackHasaKeyboard May 18 '16 at 18:04

Make Vim Curly Braces, Square Braces, Parens act like Textmate

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