Put cursor at the end of selected block after some operation

Question

Couple of examples that I encounter quite often.

Indenting some code

E.g. I want to put code block inside if statement:

puts("hello");
puts("world");

I enter if (pid > 0) { before the first line, then press Esc,j,Shift+v,j,>:

if (pid > 0) {
  puts("hello");
  puts("world");

Now cursor is at the beginnig of the first puts and to enter closing bracket I need one extra j to go to the end of the indented block.

Pasting block and adding to end of it

Almost the same example. When extracting some code to function, after pasting it with p I need to append return statement or closing bracket at the end. If I'm lucky there will be empty line after pasted block and I can use } to jump right there, but it's not always the case.

Question

So the question is how to jump to the end of the selected block after some operation performed on it (pasting, indenting, etc)?

Answer 1

`]

Will move you to the end of yanked or previously changed text.

See

:h `]

Answer 2

As an alternative behaviour, you could insert the closing } first and then indent the code inside the new scope automatically.

Being at the last line of the new scope in normal mode:

o}ESCv%=