Improving the behavior of <Enter> inside delimiters

CharlesGueunet · July 16, 2020, 9:08pm

I am mostly using Kakoune for C / CPP files editions. There is a behavior that I would like to improve.
Let’s | be the cursor. In this situation:

int toto(void) {|}

If I press enter, I will obtain:

int toto(void){
   |}

Which completely makes sense, however I would like to improve this behavior to obtain:

int toto(void){
   |
}

This second version is what some vim plugins in charge of braces/parenthesis and other block delimiters would do and I personally find it more intuitive.
How can I achieve this behavior in Kakoune ? If possible with every pair delimiters and not only {}

scr · July 16, 2020, 11:56pm

Not an expert, but I think you should look at c-family-insert-on-newline on rc/filetype/c-family

CharlesGueunet · July 17, 2020, 7:53am

Additional material concerning this topic:

github.com/alexherbo2/auto-pairs.kak

Bad indent after inserting new line between brackets

opened 05:38PM - 16 Jul 20 UTC

closed 01:04PM - 30 Jul 20 UTC

CharlesGueunet

Thank for this nice plugin. Recently, I have observed an annoying behavior wh…en inserting a new line between some separators on my cpp file. The cursor is | in the following. ``` {|} ``` press **Enter**: ``` { | } ``` I would expect the lower bracket to be aligned with the upper one. This bug seems to depends on the current filetype. It does not occurs on the `kakrc` but does occur on `cpp` files. Setup: * Kakoune on [current master](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/commit/60dda1a5975338c59298811f22651532a22348f3) * A kakrc with only prelude and auto-pairs plugins loaded and nothing else.

alexherbo2 · July 19, 2020, 9:10pm

@CharlesGueunet Do you mind opening an issue or PR on Kakoune?

CharlesGueunet · July 24, 2020, 8:42am

I will try to open a PR so I can start to update the C / C++ syntax files to use this behavior. I might add some other file types if I have time (not before August I think).