There are several plug-ins can accomplish this task, auto-add a closing bracket when we type: (, [ or {.
But then the cursor will be in the middle of paired bracket, when we finish inserting, we need to ESC, li to continue typing rest of the content.
This is quite frustrating, just autocomplete one character, we need to type 3 additional keys, is there a way to get around this? I still want to keep bracket auto-pairing though.
Fleshing out @nobe4's comment, you could do this:
inoremap <expr> ) matchstr(getline('.'), '\%' . col('.') . 'c.')==')'? '<Right>': ')'
inoremap <expr> ] matchstr(getline('.'), '\%' . col('.') . 'c.')==']'? '<Right>': ']'
inoremap <expr> } matchstr(getline('.'), '\%' . col('.') . 'c.')=='}'? '<Right>': '}'
<expr>: allows us to do a conditional mapping matchstr(...): finds the character under the cursorIt will either insert the needed parin/bracket/brace, or pass over the one that's already there.
<Right> in Insert Mode, but obviously it is less efficient, since the hand need to left the main area to a corner. Moreover, for people who use HHKB pro, typing <Right> implies Fn +', which is also sub-optimal.
Jun 10, 2016 at 10:36
<Right>or (most auto-closing plugins let you do that))or whatever the closing character is.(),{}(exact pair without anything in them) that will override the plugin functionality. But as @romainl said, the plugin should do this by default.