How to insert matching brace in vim MANUALLY?

Question

There is some text in my buffer

[{(lorem) ipsum <cursor here>

How can I insert closing brace }, then type something, and then insert ] matching with opening braces { and [

Let me explain why I need this.

For example I have to type some pure javascript code (because the coffee machine is out of order at the moment)

$(document).ready(function(){
  var classA = (function(){
     function classA(){}
     <100 lines of code here>
     return classA;
  -->oh, which closing brace should I insert here....!

Another case

[theWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", HostName, @"some/path/here"]] -> huh, what next? How many closing braces am I missing?

And why I clarify MANUALLY in the question title. Because there are some key bindings to automatically insert closing braces. For example in ( ()<Left>. However, I want to insert closing brace only when I need.

I know there is i_<C-x>_<C-o> to insert closing xml tag. But I don't know how to deal with these ones.

Thank you in advance.

Well, you press `}]` to insert a `}` followed by a `]`. Obviously. — romainl, Jul 17 '15 at 08:49
@romainl: see my edited post for explanation why I need this — Sang, Jul 17 '15 at 09:21
And see your question going back to 0 now that you have made it better. — romainl, Jul 17 '15 at 09:23
You might want to try to enable manual folding `set fdm=manual` then select all the 100 lines of code and fold them with `zf`. Then you should have the visual blink with the matching parentheses allowing you to manually close it and clearly see which matches. — Vitor, Jul 18 '15 at 23:05

Sang · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-04T22:40:44.307

Finally, I come up with this vim-close-pair plugin.

Just type <Ctrl-L> (insert mode), it will find and insert the missing brace automatically.

Install with Vundle:
- Append Plugin 'nissasssin17/vim-close-pair to your .vimrc file
- Restart vim or run :source ~/.vimrc
- Run :PluginInstall

Manual install:

  git checkout https://github.com/nissassin17/vim-close-pair.git
  cd vim-close-pair
  mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin
  cp -f plugin/close-pair.vim ~/.vim/plugin/
  mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
  cp -f autoload/close-pair.vim ~/.vim/autoload/

How to insert matching brace in vim MANUALLY?

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