Vim plugin for 'auto-closed' parenthesis?

Question

I've searched near and far, and not found a plugin that can simply auto-close a set of parenthesis like Textmate. For example:

Vim     : (*manually close parens* → )
Textmate: (*Auto closes parens*)

If you can describe a plugin for this, I will be very helpful. Thanks!

Answer 1

For those of us who want to go the plain vim way:

ino " ""<left>
ino ' ''<left>
ino ( ()<left>
ino [ []<left>
ino { {}<left>
ino {<CR> {<CR>}<ESC>O

This autocomplete in insert mode. Keep in the vimrc to avoid typing it everytime and when we don't want the mapping, we need to escape it using ctrl - v before typing the mapped char of ( { etc.