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

Put the following in your .vimrc file:

inoremap { {}ha

Whenever you press { in insert mode, {} is generated and puts your cursor on the right brace, so that you can start typing between them straight away. By putting the curly braces in sequence rather than on different lines, you can put tabs in front of } manually. That way you never have the wrong amount of tabs in front of it.

Perhaps someone can figure out how to count the amount of tabs the cursor is on, and then generate an equal amount of tabs in front of the } on a new line.