Vim smart insert semicolon

Question

Is there a Vim plugin that can handle smart semicolon insertion, like the one in Eclipse?

Example (pipe character is insertion cursor):

foobar(|)
         


        

Answer 1

" ftplugin/c/c_snippet.vim
inoremap   ; getline('.')[col('.')-1:-1]=~')$' ? ';' : ';'

This version shall not pose problems with for if your snippets engine expands it into

for (...|) {
   <+code+>
}<++>

If the open bracket is on a newline, it will mess things up.

You could easily change the regex to '"\=)\+$' to answer your initial question.

inoremap   ; getline('.')[col('.')-1:-1]=~'"\=)\+$' ? ';' : ';'

However, I don't think it's a good idea. In that case, the mapping for will be:

inoremap    getline('.')[:col('.')-2] =~ '.*")\+;$' ? 'F";' : ''