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I often find myself having to reformat C++ function arguments and template parameters to occupy individual lines rather than being on the same line. Here are a few examples.

Turn this

template <typename T>
std::enable_if_t<some_type_trait<T>, int> foo(const T&);

into this

template <typename T>
std::enable_if_t<
    some_type_trait<T>,
    int
> foo(const T&);

Turn this

double inner_product(const std::array<double,3>& a, const std::array<double,3>& b);

into this

double inner_product(
    const std::array<double,3>& a,
    const std::array<double,3>& b
);

Does a plugin that does that already exist? If not, can someone help me write a vim function for it? What I'd like to do is put the cursor inside the outer parentheses or angle brackets and press a key combination to reformat the arguments to individual lines. Not recursively. Just the top level. The number of arguments can be arbitrary. And, as I tried to illustrate in the second example, there may be additional commas that don't separate arguments. So, a bit similarly to how vim-surround works, except, instead of replacing the type of brackets, I want the code inside the brackets reformatted.

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    Using clang-format as an external formatting tools seems to become increasingly popular. Has the advantage that everybody working on a project will have the same formatting, regardless of their editor. Instead of wasting time tweaking your editor, you'll waste time tweaking clang-format.
    – Friedrich
    Commented Oct 17, 2023 at 18:30
  • A comment on vim SO that advocates not doing something in vim. lol
    – SU3
    Commented Oct 17, 2023 at 18:34
  • Glad my comment amused you. I wasn't so much advocating as mentioning what is - in my experience - a common setup. I don't even like it, if you must know.
    – Friedrich
    Commented Oct 17, 2023 at 19:02
  • What did you try?
    – romainl
    Commented Oct 18, 2023 at 5:10

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With tpope/vim-surround, I believe cSbb and cS>> would do, since the S forces multi-line. You might have to touch up the insides (like :substitute/,/&\r/g) afterwards; I’m not able to test and confirm at the moment.

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  • From what I can tell, the difference is that cSbb in vim-surrond autoindents the affected lines afterwards. I like what vim-argwrap does better. But thanks for chipping in. I didn't know vim-surrond basically solved the problem already.
    – SU3
    Commented Oct 17, 2023 at 20:31
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I found an existing plugin that does exactly what I wanted.

vim-argwrap

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