[Vim-latex-devel] Re: matching brackets

[Luc H. <her...@fr...>]

* On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:26:48AM -0500, Carl Mueller <cm...@ma...> wrote:
> One of my biggest problems used to be mismatched brackets.
> Now I have macros which automatically type the matching
> bracket.  For instance, "(" results in "()" with the cursor
> in between.  Since I sometimes want only one bracket, I made
> it so that "((" results in "(".  
> That is faster than typing "(" and then deleting the extra bracket.
> Not everyone may agree with this idea, so it could be an option.

Hum ... nice idea. If you don't mind, may be I will use in my
common_brackets.vim. As the only times I need a single parenthesis are
within comments or string contexts, I use <C-V> for the remaining rare
times.


Personnaly, I'd rather see this as a plugin. Then from any file in
ftplugin/tex, the corresponding pairs are activated.
and the same from ftplugin/vim, ftplugin/c, etc. These bracketing macros
are not interresting in LaTeX documents only.

> I'm listing the code below.  It applies to:
> () [] {} \{\} $$

It reminds me I need to extend my version of CompleteSlash to support
'\%(\)' -- for vim

> || \|\| 
> &&   (when within eqnarray or eqnarray* environments)

cheers,

-- 
Luc Hermitte