How can can I get emacs to insert closing braces automatically

Question

I've just started using emacs, and there's one feature I'd really like, and searching around a bit was fruitless. I hope someone else has done this because I don't want to learn elisp just yet.

void foo()<cursor>

I would like typing an "{" to cause this to happen

void foo(){
    <cursor>
}

I would like this to only happen in cc-mode, and only at the end of a line when not in a string/comment/etc

The first thing that came to mind was rebinding "{" to do this always(I could figure out how to do this myself), but it would be hard to make it only happen at the right time.

any hints would be appreciated.

Answer 1

on latest emacs you can use :

electric-pair-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function.

(electric-pair-mode &optional ARG)

Automatically pair-up parens when inserting an open paren.

this is integrated in Emacs 24.1 (actually CVS)