Overview

This plugin rebinds some characters to make typing matching characters easier. Specifically, it does these things:

• Opening brace and quote characters (specifically, (, [, {, ', and ") are mapped to make them automatically insert their corresponding closing character. ' is special-cased to not insert the closing character when typed after a word character, to avoid triggering when typing words with apostrophes.
• Typing a closing brace or quote character while the next character past the cursor is that character will skip over it instead of inserting it.
• Pressing when the next character is a closing brace will insert two newlines, and leave the cursor in the middle.
• Pressing when the previous character is an open brace and there is nothing but whitespace between the open brace and closing brace will delete both the open and closing brace.

Installation

This plugin can be installed as a standard Vim package (see :help packages). Simply clone this repository into ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-autobrace to install the Vim files for this plugin.

Configuration

None yet, but I'm open to suggestions!

Bugs

Due to limitations in Vimscript, using this plugin will tend to break using the . operator to repeat insert operations, since the mappings bounce in and out of normal mode. Suggestions welcome for how to fix this, but as far as I can tell, it's not actually possible to fix in general currently.