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:

Type this:

Answer 1

Just a note to @Bob.

Karl Guertin's AutoClose has a function named ``double brace'', that is, you can type curly brace twice, as below.

int func_name(void) {{ ==> Type `{' twice here.

would result in:

int func_name(void) {
| ==> Cursor here.
}

Then, you can type a single Tab, to get indented according to your `shiftwidth' setting, then type.