Álvaro Ramírez

While I do most editing in Emacs, I use Xcode every now and then. I like Xcode's pair matching (of brackets) combined with its auto-indent.

While the wonderful smartparens gives Emacs pair-matching powers, it doesn't automatically indent between pairs (out of the box anyway).

Luckily, smartparens does provide sp-local-pair, which enables us to achieve a similar goal.

With a short snippet, we can autoindent between {}, [], and () when pressing return in-between.

(defun indent-between-pair (&rest _ignored)
  (newline)
  (indent-according-to-mode)
  (forward-line -1)
  (indent-according-to-mode))

(sp-local-pair 'prog-mode "{" nil :post-handlers '((indent-between-pair "RET")))
(sp-local-pair 'prog-mode "[" nil :post-handlers '((indent-between-pair "RET")))
(sp-local-pair 'prog-mode "(" nil :post-handlers '((indent-between-pair "RET")))

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