Vim tips for SWIG

I've ever annoyed with the mixed tab and spaces in SWIG's code. Just talked it with William Fulton in #swig-gsoc. He suggested some tips.

This is a way to specific coding style by project:

au BufRead */[SWIG|swig]*/* set tabstop=8 | set shiftwidth=2 | set softtabstop=2 | set expandtab " SWIG

And a Syntax file for SWIG, add this in ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/filetype.vim to use it:

" SWIG filetype file
if exists("did_load_filetypes")
   finish
endif
augroup filetypedetect
   au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.swg  setfiletype swig
   au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.i    setfiletype swig
augroup END

Finally, a big thanks to William! :)

Auto-bracketing within Vim

The AutoClose Vim script inserts matching brackets automatically. It is useful for me, since I am lazy. But what annoying me is the script runs buggy in my Linux box. When I press , it often overwrite my program with a lot of brackets!

I looked into its codes, and commented out these two lines of code:

      "inoremap <silent> <Esc> <C-R>=<SID>CloseStackPop('')<CR><Esc>
     "inoremap <silent> <C-[> <C-R>=<SID>CloseStackPop('')<CR><C-[>

Now it works well! Cheers!