Automatically insert a matching brace in Vim

Question

I spend way too much time fumbling around because Vim doesn\'t handle closing braces like most IDEs do. Here\'s what I want to happen:

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Answer 1

In VimL, you can map the { to do exactly as you wish:

inoremap { {}ko

depending on your autoindent setup, you may want to add a after .

For a more complete solution, I'd suggest you take a look at Luc Hermitte's vim plugins. They've never failed me so far.