Paranthesis closure in Geany for c++

Question

After typing

int func(){

And pressing enter I'm getting like this , since I have enabled auto close plugin

 int func(){
      //cursor stays here }

But what i need is

int func(){
     //cursor stays here
   }

I'm able to achieve the required indentation by changing snippets.conf, but I have to press c and Tab, where

c=%brace_open%%cursor%%brace_close%
brace_open={\n\t
brace_close=\n}\n

Auto-close plugin settings:

is there any other way of achieving ?? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Check out https://plugins.geany.org/autoclose.html for autoclose plugin. This will solve your problem.

In Linux you can directly install it by sudo apt-get install geany-plugin-autoclose

Answer 2

I haven't been able to figure out how to get exactly what you've indicated, but the Autoclose plugin can get close. Typing int func(){ and pressing Enter gives the following, where the | character represents the cursor location:

int func(){
    |
}

EDIT:

My Autoclose settings are as shown below. But that turns out not to be the whole story. See after the image for more.

While looking into this some more, I discovered some strange behavior. I don't know if it's at the root of your problem or not, but it's maybe something to consider.

Autoclose worked as I described when pressing Enter on the main keyboard, but not when pressing Enter on the keypad, with or without NumLock enabled. In the latter case, I got the same result you did.

I normally use an antique IBM Model M keyboard, so to eliminate any chance of the problem being caused by the keyboard itself, I tried a modern USB keyboard with keypad. The results were exactly the same.

Having a suspicion as to what was happening, and since it's open source, I pulled down the Autoclose source code and took a look. And found...

static gboolean
auto_close_chars(
    AutocloseUserData *data,
    GdkEventKey       *event)
{
    ...
    else if (ch == GDK_Return)
    {
        return improve_indent(sci, editor, pos);
    }
    ...
}

A general search for GDK_Return turned up gdkkeysyms.h that defines all of the GDK key codes. In that, there's GDK_Return and also GDK_KP_Enter, where "KP" means "keypad". Since Autoclose doesn't recognize GDK_KP_Enter, it'll fail to respond to pressing Enter on the keypad.

So, if you're using a full keyboard with keypad, it should work ok so long as Enter on the main keyboard is being used. On the other hand, If you're using a laptop where there's only one Enter key, all bets are off.