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I'm new to vim and trying to configure vim for my coding learning course. I tried these very basic inoremap lines in my ~/.vimrc, and there are also similar lines for <>'", but none of them works.

inoremap { {}<ESC>i<left>
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O
inoremap {{ {
inoremap {} {}

I even deleted all the lines in the .vimrc except these inoremap lines, still no effect, meaning when I hit {, I don't get its pair }. I know there are plugins that may be more powerful, but I don't want my .vimrc to be messy and become unmanageable therefore I'd really like the native features work out for me, as a starting point. After all I don't need very fancy functions at the moment. Helps are appreciated.

By the way, I use FreeBSD, but I don't expect the vim configuration is so much system dependent.

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  • If ypu keep only the first do you have the problem? One "problem' I see with your mapping is that it forces vim to wait for more keystroke to know what to do.
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Apr 10, 2022 at 3:46
  • Yes. Keeping only first line gives me no difference, still no closing brace.
    – D.W
    Apr 10, 2022 at 6:06
  • Could you add the set nocompatible line at the start of your .vimrc file?
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Apr 10, 2022 at 6:19
  • Your first map would put cursor before {, while I think you want it to be inside curly braces. For that, following should do the job inoremap { {}<ESC>i
    – Maxim Kim
    Apr 10, 2022 at 6:28
  • It seems to work fine on vim 8.2. Can you tell us which version of vim you are using? You can get that information by typing the command :version
    – Vivian De Smedt
    Apr 10, 2022 at 6:35

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It turns out the problem is with the system wide vimrc that I tweaked not long ago, which I think overrides the user level .vimrc. I just replaced the system wide vimrc with default one now the auto completion in ~/.vimrc works as desired. Don't know which settings in the /usr/local/etc/vim/vimrc were causing the problem though. Now I have following mapping lines in .vimrc:

inoremap { {}<ESC>i
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O
inoremap {{ {
inoremap {} {}

Similar goes for []()"'.

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