created by

Niels Aan de Brugh

script type

utility

description

Actually most types of brackets are supported, as long it works with %. This script aims to provide some useful tricks of ParEdit but be less restrictive and more geared towards C-style programming rather than Lisp. It has less than 5% of ParEdit probably, if you want something more similar, look for slimev. This makes the open brackets (, [, and < introduce a balanced pair. If there is already an unbalance, the script determines if adding a closing bracket makes matters better or worse. In the latter case, the closing bracket is not added. Typing the close bracket checks if the next non-whitespace character is already that same symbol. If it is, the script just zaps all white-space until the existing symbol and moves past it. If there is no closing symbol, a new closing bracket is introduced. (Note that is much less restrictive than ParEdit but also much less safe). For { a special case exists: typing a second { in a row introduces extra newlines for C-style programming rather than a nested pair of curly brackets. Also, } doesn't remove all white-space like the other brackets do. Again, this is convenient for programming. In normal mode, you can type a number N and then an opening bracket, and the script will put brackets around the following N words, similar to what you can do in ParEdit.

install details

Put in plugins directory, and run RemapParensForBuffer in buffers (autocmd!) where you want this to work.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
smartparen.vim	0.2	2010-08-26	7.0	Niels Aan de Brugh	Added option to exclude bracket types, escaping and only set up mappings if matchpairs is set properly.
smartparen.vim	0.1	2010-08-18	7.0	Niels Aan de Brugh	Initial upload

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