Question

Is there a way to let gVim Autoformat my (c#) code? I’m not just talking about indenting, but actually formatting.

Like changing

public void Program() {
    ...
}

to

public void Program ()
{
    ...
}

and the other way around. Be it a macro, plugin or something else (formatexpr?).

I’m trying to imitate the Visual Studio formatting here. I’d love to type } and have everything look nice.

Answer 1

Vim has no native way to do that. However you might be interested in AStyle which has many options

astyle --help will tell you what options are available. Many presets are available.

In vim you can filter a document with :%!command where command receives the current buffer in stdin; the current buffer is replaced with the output of your command. If the command does not read from stdin but expects a file name as argument instead, use %.

Thus:

:%!C:\astyle\bin\astyle.exe -A1

will do it (provided you replace with the good path).