Automatic closing brackets for Vim
Is there any WORKING plugin for Vim 7.4 that would automatically close brackets ('{}', '[]', '()') and maybe insert some carriage returns (for '{}' at least)?
I know this question has been asked quite a few times but none of the answers either do not seem to work in vim 7.4 or the plugin has not been updated or something.
So far I've tried vim-smartinput, autoclose and delimitmate and NONE of these have managed to insert any closing characters even though I have enabled the plugins and they otherwise seem to be active. I don't know if there has been some changes in vim that somehow breaks these plugins. None of these plugins seem to be updated in a ~year at least. Any working solutions that would work with vim 7.4?
Answer
For those of us, who want a vanilla vim:
inoremap " ""<left>
inoremap ' ''<left>
inoremap ( ()<left>
inoremap [ []<left>
inoremap { {}<left>
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O
inoremap {;<CR> {<CR>};<ESC>O
This autocomplete in insert mode, provided set paste is not set. Keep it in the vimrc to avoid typing it every time
and when we don't want the mapping, we need to escape it using ctrl + v before typing the mapped char like ( { etc.