This tiny vim plugin provides an insert-mode mapping to intelligently place semicolons within the current line. This is useful for C-like languages where a semicolon marks the end of a line and is seldomly found somewhere else.
Upon pressing ; in insert-mode, if every one of the following conditions is
met, the semicolon is placed at the end of the current line. Otherwise, it is
placed under the cursor as usual:
- The current line ends with an alpha-numerical ASCII character, one of the
following characters:
_)]'",--, or++ - The current line does not start with
for (, ignoring whitespace - The next line is not further indented as the current one or is empty
- The next line does not end with
{, ignoring whitespace - The cursor is not positioned past the end of the current line
- The cursor is outside a highlight group whose name contains the string
comment
If the semicolon is placed at the end of the line, trailing whitespace is removed.
With vim-plug:
Plug 'D4KU/smart-semicolon.vim'
This plugin is only enabled for specific file-types. Change them by assigning a list to the following variable:
let g:smart_semicolon_filetypes = `['c', 'cpp', 'cs', 'cuda', 'hlsl', 'glsl', 'css']`