Getting automatic matching brace in vim

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Published on 2010-12-23T19:28:50Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 21:54 UTC
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I spend WAY to much time fumbling around because vim doesn't handle closing braces like most IDEs do. Here's what I want to happen:

type this:

if( whatever )
{ <CR>

where <CR> mean hit the enter key

and get this:

if( whatever )
{
  |  
}

where | is the position of the cursor. It's what Eclipse does. It's what Visual Studio does. And it's what I want Vim to do.

I've seen a few plugins, tried a few, and none of them seem to give me this behavior. Surely I can't be the first programmer to want this.

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